WHY IS SCAFFOLDING IMPORTANT?
“Scaffolding is most effective when it helps children perform at a level that is much higher than what they can do alone, rather than moving children incrementally along the path of learning and development.”
(Justice & Pence, Scaffolding with Storybooks, pg.9)
(Justice & Pence, Scaffolding with Storybooks, pg.9)
Educators and caregivers alike need to be sensitive to what a child cannot do and then support the child to do it.
It is important that the selected method of scaffolding empowers a child and does not frustrate him.
STAR suggests that teachers use two sets of scaffolding strategies during STAR-based shared-reading sessions:
- High-support strategies:Use these with children who are struggling with a specific concept or task and need support to be successful.
- Low-support strategies:Use these with children who are finding a specific concept of task relatively simple and need to be challenged.
HIGH SUPPORT AND LOW SUPPORT SCAFFOLDING
Hear more about the differences between low and high support strategies and why teachers implement them in the classroom:
