Alana Richards

Scaffolding with Information Wheels

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Using information wheels in lessons is a wonderful way of giving our students the opportunity to learn through, among other learning styles, kinesthetic interaction. They’ll be pulling from past knowledge, using deductive reasoning, negotiating meaning, and learning new subject matter, all at the

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Scaffolding Academic Language with ‘What’s Missing?’ (Pre-School/lower primary)

this scaffold is magic!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… ‘Intelligence is not necessarily hereditary. Education can transform a child’ asserts Karl Witte*, a pioneer in blended learning. We have the tools, he says, to help our students to change the course of their academic and then professional lives,

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Scaffolding through Chunking – Strips (pre-school/lower primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… One of the most common go-to words to explain scaffolding is ‘chunking’. Chunking is the strategy of breaking down material into digestible proportions in order to avoid cognitive overload. If you accept the studies (and there are a lot of

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