Learning Technique: Scaffolding - Descriptive Writing

Scaffolding

A brief guide to sentence starters for descriptive writing.

"Scaffolding is the process of breaking lessons into manageable units, with the teacher providing decreasing levels of support as students grasp new concepts and master new skills"

University of San Diego - Professional and Continual Education

There are many ways to scaffold different subjects, based on the content you are covering. Many of these are very subject, content and contextually specific.

Here we will look at one example for descriptive writing in English. For KS3.

We will provide our students with a spinner of sentence starters for them to use on their first and second attempt at writing. We can then reduce the options on the spinner, or remove the spinner entirely in future lessons.

Descriptive Creative Writing.