Scaffold Familiarity Scale
Determine your level of familiarity with each scaffold listed below by rating them using the following scale:
- I am not familiar with this scaffold.
- I am familiar with this scaffold but do not regularly use it with ELLs.
- I regularly use this scaffold with ELLs.
Administrators can consider the extent to which they see these scaffolds used in the classrooms in their school.
Scaffold Categories
Materials and Resources Scaffolds
- Graphic Organizers
- Visuals
- Word banks or word walls
- Sentence stems, frames, paragraph frames
- Adapted text and/or audio texts
- English and/or bilingual glossaries
- Supporting materials in home language
Instruction Scaffolds
- Repetition and paraphrasing
- Modeling activities and ways of thinking
- Pre-identified and pre-taught vocabulary
- Concise instruction of background knowledge
- Practice academic skills with a non-academic topic
Student Grouping Scaffolds
- Structured pair work
- Structured small group work (may be teacher led)