Alana Richards

Scaffolding Winter Holidays/Solstice

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Winter is the time of celebrations of light. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise  the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish the fear surrounding the short days of the months (in the northern hemisphere), before and after the

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Scaffolding Winter Holidays/Solstice

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Winter is the time of celebrations of light. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise  the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish the fear surrounding the short days of the months (in the northern hemisphere), before and after the

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Scaffolding Winter Holidays/Solstice

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Winter is the time of celebrations of light. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise  the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish the fear surrounding the short days of the months (in the northern hemisphere), before and after the

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Rainbow from the Ashes!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the core of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence and move forward proactively. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving.

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Rainbow from the Ashes!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the core of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence and move forward proactively. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving.

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Rainbow from the Ashes!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the core of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence and move forward proactively. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving.

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Scaffolding Academic Language by Identifying Visual Differences (Primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Studies show that while memorising academic language is effective in the short term – to pass exams, for instance, in the long-term it is an ineffective way of learning terms that students can use in context*. Without having analysed, compared,

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