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Instructional scaffolding—the use of resources, structures, and verbal interaction to help students do challenging academic work—is known to be essential for effective English language reading ...

At the heart of all good teaching is the intent to help students grow and, ultimately, become independent learners. Scaffolding instruction—to support students through successive levels of ...

Scaffolding refers to a process in which teachers model or demonstrate how to solve a problem, and then step back, offering support to students as needed. It has mainly three features: contingency, ...

Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 42, No. 2, Japanese Language Education (Oct., 2008), pp. 337-359 (23 pages) In recent years, Content Based Instruction (CBI) has become increasingly popular as a ...

The goal of scaffolding is to provide opportunities for accommodating students’ individual abilities and needs as they learn and grow. It is important to note that scaffolding is fundamental to all ...

Walk into any classroom with students learning English, and you’ll likely see a complex tapestry of linguistic diversity.

Sparked by the Common Core State Standards, teachers and literacy experts are arguing about the role of a time-honored pillar of English/language arts instruction: classroom activities designed to ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can you best differentiate instruction for English-language learners in a “mainstream” classroom? Part One ‘s responses came from Valentina Gonzalez, Jenny Vo, ...