This document provides tips for using scaffolding techniques to support English language learners. It recommends breaking complex tasks into smaller steps, reviewing past material, and using examples to demonstrate expectations. Teachers should also provide verbal clues, use real-world objects, employ graphic organizers, guide prediction, ask questions while reading, and connect new topics to students' prior knowledge and experiences. The goal is to make new information comprehensible by building on what students already know.

1. Scaffolding for ESL students

2. Interesting Material Are we making sure that our topic is of interest to the students Do they have some background information on this topic

3. Breaking it down Break a complex task into easier steps Don’t give too much new information at one time

4. Review Make sure to review material covered in an earlier lesson Students who were absent will have a hole in their learning if they can’t make connections between past knowledge and new information Teach new vocabulary before reading new material Form meanings from students prior knowledge

5. Show an Example What is the final project suppose to look like Have an example ready for the students to see Let the students ask questions about what you expect Always model any activity for students before they are expected to complete the task independently

6. Verbal Clues Help students answer correctly by giving them prompts Offer hints or partial solutions to problems

7. Realia Have maps for the students to look at Bring objects that will help students to make connections Pictures of objects that are too large or hard to find will also do Show timelines to show the relationship of time

8. Graphic Organizers Have students use graphic organizers to arrange work This will also help students understand how new information relates to past knowledge

9. Predicting Guide the students to make predictions while reading Ask students if they saw foreshadowing(teach this first) in the story

10. Questions Stop and ask questions while reading This will encourage a deeper level of thinking Ask students if they can make a connection between the story and their own life or the subject being studied The End