Scaffolding a lesson is breaking a lesson up into smaller learning chunks and providing a tool or structure that would be used for each chunk.

•The teacher would modify and chunk the lesson to where the students needs are.

• Scaffolding would be the first step a teacher would take when working with a struggling reader.

• The goal for the teacher is to make sure that the student becomes independent and less reliant on the teacher

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• The goal for the teacher is to make sure that the student becomes independent and less reliant on the teacher

• The students are doing the same assignments as everyone else in the classroom but the assignments are just being shorten into smaller pieces.

What is scaffolding?