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Scaffolding Images and Text with Mini-Cards (Pre-School/lower primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… We all know by now………………………………… teaching critical thinking is a never-ending job. Critical thinking strategies are domain sensitive, which simply means that a strategy that works in art may not work in history, and a strategy that works in for […]

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Scaffolding with Timelines

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Concept maps are tools for organising and representing knowledge.* Timelines – a type of concept map – serve as a kind of template to help students to organise knowledge and structure information visually. They are one more tool we can pass on to

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Scaffolding International Thank You Day

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. The International Thank You Day – celebrated by many on January 11th, others on June 11th – is a wonderful opportunity to help our students to focus on gratitude. Including gratitude in the educational environments is proven to improve relationships both in and

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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 and a wonderful opportunity to teach our young students about these celebrations all over the world. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish 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 essence of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your young students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving. Help your students

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Pop-Up Images! – Finding Differences

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Make learning visible by challenging students to find the distinctions between the images in two montages. Studies show that giving pre-schoolers the opportunity to learn how to discern what differs is just as important as them learning what is similar when meeting new phenomena. We can help

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Scaffolding Halloween (Pre-School)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of this scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… We’re going to address Number Sense.Number sense in a Halloween activity?Yup. It will make sense right away…Students don’t develop number sense by accident or even as a side effect of engaging in informal activities such as puzzles or songs

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Scaffolding Academic Language with Hieroglyphs (Pre-School/lower primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download a PDF of this scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Educators and owners of academies who claim to teach critical thinking usually assume that it is a skill, like riding a bicycle, and that, like other skills, once you learn it, you can apply it in any situation.

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Scaffolding with Irony (Pre-School/lower primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Adding humour to a lesson is always a recipe for success. Humour changes the dynamic of the class and helps students to see their lessons from a different frame of mind. This scaffold uses irony to ……………………………… Of course, there

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Scaffolding Books through Predictions (Pre-School/lower primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Introducing books in any class can seem daunting, especially when we know the attention span (or rather lack thereof) of our students. Giving our students the chance to interact, make predictions, use critical thinking skills and visual clues, can augment

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