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.
![chalk board](https://star.ehe.osu.edu/files/2017/06/chalkboard.png)
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: