In the ‘Voices from the Classroom’ video below, Sophie Law, Year 2 teacher at St Matthews Catholic Primary School in Bradford, shares some of her thinking on using scaffolds to support pupils with working memory demands.
In this blog, we encourage you to reflect on some of the themes that emerge from Sophie’s video, and provide some further reading and resources.
Types of scaffolds
Sophie mentions different types of scaffolds.
Visual scaffolds, such as task planners, graphic organisers, models and concept maps.
Verbal scaffolds, such as reminders, reteaching or the TA scaffolding framework.
Written scaffolds, such as a writing frame, key vocabulary or sentence starters.
