Scaffolding

Scaffolding texts

  • Scaffolding Texts Two Ways: Teacher Moves or Using the Same Text at Different Levels.

  • Check out their ideas and resources for scaffolding reading with strategies or leveled texts.

  • Scaffolding Texts

Suggested Scaffolds at Each Proficiency Level

ELP Level

Scaffolds for Instruction by Level

Scaffolds for All Levels

Beginning

• Access to text, video, and/or instructions in home language, as well as in English
• Sentence frames to help ELs respond to text-dependent questions posed throughout the lesson
• Word walls and word banks
• Reduced linguistic load for language of instruction

丁
Concise background knowledge
Pretaught vocabulary
Graphic organizers

Intermediate

• Access to text, video, and/or instructions in home language, as well as in English, as appropriate
• Sentence stems
• Word walls and banks

DiD Glossaries
Dictionaries
Repetition, paraphrasing, and

Advanced

• See scaffolding for all levels

& modeling.
≤ Pair and small-group work

Source: Staehr Fenner, D., & Snyder, S. (2017). Unlocking English learners' potential: Strategies for making content accessible. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Categories of Scaffolds and Examples

Categories of Scaffolds

Examples

Materials and Resources

Graphic organizers
砸
English and/or bilingual glossaries
English and/or bilingual dictionaries
Home language materials
Sentence frames, sentence stems, and paragraph frames
Visuals
目
Word banks or word walls

Instruction

Preidentified and pretaught vocabulary
U
Concise instruction of background knowledge
Reduced linguistic load, repetition, paraphrasing, and modeling

Student Grouping

Structured pair work
哈
Structured small-group work
諮
Teacher-led small-group work

Source: Adapted from WIDA Consortium, (n.d.). WIDA support examples across levels. Retrieved from https://lincwellell.wikispaces.com/file/view/WiDA+Support*+ Examples+Across+Levels.pdf

Google Document

UDL

Universal Design for Learning is for ALL learners, ideas for implementation with English Learners.

Google Document

Comprehensible Input Demo for Language Rich Classrooms Training