Strategy 4: Using Scaffolding Techniques

Procedural Scaffolding
(Grouping techniques and activity structures and frames)

• Using an instructional framework that includes explicit teaching (T)-modeling (T)-practicing (St)-applying (St)
• 1-1 teaching, coaching, modeling
• Pairing and grouping of students so that less experienced/knowledgeable students work with more experienced/knowledgeable students
• Activating prior knowledge
• Think-Pair-Share
• Met’s Expanded Think-Pair-Share
• Personalize info (relate to your own life)
• Dictogloss
• Cooperative group techniques
• Jigsaw - Roger's Rules, www.jigsaw.org
• Joint writing project
• Use of routines
• TPR/TPRS - Total Physical Response and Total Physical Response Storytelling (or Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling)
• Gibbons’ Activity Cycle (oral-informal, oral-formal, written-informal, written-formal)
• Lyster’s register variation activity
• Scored discussion - and explanation, and a sample rubric used to grade students participating in a scored discussion
• Role play, simulations
• Process writing
• SQP2RS

Developed by Tara Fortune (March, 2004) with input from immersion teachers, and based on ideas presented in Echevarria, J., Vogt, M. & Short, D.J. (2004). Making content comprehensible for English learners: The SIOP Model (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

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