Scaffolding Magic
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València, Valencia, Spain
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Teacher since 1992 (more than 30 years!)
Teacher-trainer for the past 15 years
Author (101 Scaffolding Techniques for the Content and Language Teacher)
Professor (Universidad de Jaén, Universidad de Valencia, Spain), Teacher-trainer, and collaborator with international educational institutions
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Warm-Up with Irregular Verbs Rapid-Fire !!!
Are you tired of your students not participating actively in your English classes? Are your students frustrated because of their lack of ability to easily and accurately conjugate high-frequency irregular verbs? This set of materials is for you! Along with two (2) explanatory videos, you'll be able to help your students to raise their language level in weeks if not days! Repetition is important for very specific purposes. Learning the conjugations of high-frequency irregular verbs in English is
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Other (World Language)
CCSS
L.K.1
, L.K.4
, L.K.5d
+1
Winter Celebrations, Candles, & Connection
Here is a lesson to celebrate cultures all over the world who use music, colour, lights, food, to vanquish the darkness. Replete with stories, templates, videos, links, activities, sports, dance, songs, and so much more. What are the differences in the celebrations? More importantly, what do they share? How do they promote connection? You are going to be amazed at the excitement and conversations this lesson evokes. The lesson has six (6) parts: ReadingScienceMusicArtMathsP.E.In each part, you'l
PreK - 5th
For All Subjects, Science
CCSS
L.K.1
, L.K.2
, L.K.6
Warm-Up with Images and Concepts with Mini-Cards (Lower Primary/Pre-School)
We all know by now (pretend that you do, even if you don’t!!!) that teaching critical thinking is a never-ending job. Critical thinking strategies are domain sensitive, which simply means that a strategy that works in art may not work in history, and a strategy that works in for a verbal deliberation may not work in a situation that requires physical movement, etc. We look at all this as an opportunity to expand our practice. We can take this as an excuse to widen even further the variety of st
PreK - 3rd
English Language Arts, Performing Arts
CCSS
L.K.1
, L.K.2b
, L.K.5d
Lesson for International Thank You Day (Primary)
January 11th is generally targeted as the International Thank You Day. What could we possibly celebrate on this day? Have you every thought about how powerful a 'thank you' is? Have you every explored what material and non-material things you are 'thankful' for in your daily life? How can you aid your students in re-framing the challenges in their lives simply through some simple yet powerful activities that explore and promote connection and positive vibrations? The activities in this 21-page,
PreK - 8th, Adult Education
For All Subjects, Visual Arts
CCSS
L.3.1
, L.3.1b
, L.3.1d
+4
Warm-Up by Including Hidden Mistakes in New Content (Primary)
There is a bizarre and interesting consequence of the digital age and it's unexpected: speech therapists have found their work has multiplied exponentially in the past few years. They attribute this to a generation of students who spend more hours on their phones and computers, sending and reading short texts, rather than connecting verbally. What better way, then, to counteract this than to give students many opportunities to communicate verbally. If we can throw in critical thinking in the sa
1st - 6th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, Visual Arts
CCSS
L.4.1
, L.4.1b
, L.4.5c
+1
Warm-Up with Art to Chunk Dense Material (Primary)
You're next unit is challenging and you're a bit nervous, right? What do you do? WARM-UPS! Varied learning styles. This is the secret to fluid lessons. Today's WARM-UP includes translating information into drawings to deepen knowledge. Your students work together for the first few minutes of class and you float from group to group enjoying their conversations, their drawings that represent core information, and the discussions on standard language that will explain key concepts of the coming un
1st - 6th
Close Reading, Performing Arts
CCSS
L.4.1
, L.4.1g
, L.4.4
+3
Warm-up with a Critical Thinking Game (Diamonds, Primary)
What better way to ease into a new unit than to play a game. Yes, even at Secondary, your students will learn and enjoy learning complex terms and concepts without even realising it. Meanwhile, you can wander around the classroom relating to your students on a more personal level while they are involved in besting themselves and supporting their group members. This is an easy WARM-UP to prepare and use. The steps, templates, and resources are all included and this you're going to love this ga
1st - 6th
English Language Arts, Music
CCSS
L.4.1
, L.4.1b
, L.4.1d
+4
Warm-Up Halloween (Pre-School/Lower Primary)
Let’s celebrate Halloween AND number sense. Singing, counting, costuming (I made that up!), in general, having FUN!!! This song and video are going to get you and your students HOPPING!!! Students don't develop number sense by accident or even as a side effect of engaging in informal activities such as puzzles or songs - even those that, on the surface appear to be related to math. Experts insist that although every child can learn number sense, not every child will unless they intentionally
K - 3rd
Art, Dance
CCSS
L.K.1
, L.K.4
, L.K.5c
+1
Warmup through Sequencing (Pre-School/Lower Primary)
What's the next video you're going to watch with your little ones? What the next big book? The next song? ANY of these are the perfect opportunity to introduce this fantastic sequencing dynamic. You will model the words your students need to justify choices they make in ordering stories - and there are no correct ways - only ways that make sense if they explain them appropriately. Too much fun - you'll see with these simple steps. Sequencing can be one of the most dynamic skill builders we can
PreK - 3rd
English Language Arts
Warm-Up with Information Wheels (Primary)
This WARM-UP is a fantastic way of presenting new information from a book ,a podcast, a video, a science experiment - virtually any text that your students need to read and understand. And they'll not only read, but will speak the words aloud, use memory, visual cues, touch, motion, negotiation with their group members, inferencing, social skills and so much more. WARMING-UP with Information Wheels is a way of your students interacting with material gradually – in chunks. This will reduce the c
3rd - 6th
Reading Strategies
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
CCRA.L.1
, CCRA.L.3
, CCRA.L.4
+9
Warm-Up through Sequencing Dynamic (Primary)
The art of sequencing...it IS an art. Sequencing is taught deliberately in Pre-School and then we usually forget about it. Yet it is one of the most important skills for our young learners. If we give them opportunities to strengthen sequencing, most of the other concepts and dynamics come more easily to them for instance: deciding on topics, choosing most important concepts, finding words more easily filed away in their minds, and so much more. This WARM-UP uses images and the specific phras
1st - 6th
Close Reading
CCSS
CCRA.L.1
, CCRA.L.2
, CCRA.L.3
+3
Scaffolding Books through Predictions (Primary)
Predicting leadsstudents to a faster recognition of facts later on, and so the ability to more quickly react, process and assimilate information. This scaffold was created for a teacher I worked with, who suffered from traditional, teacher-centred training. Though very willing to introduce dynamic activities for his students, he did not know how to put his enthusiasm into practice, so, when a visitor entered his classroom, all the students were most likely sitting at individual desks, heads down
1st - 6th
Scaffolding Academic Language with Intentional Errors (Primary)
How better to show your students how much fun errors can be than to design a whole activity around them! You include errors where students least expect them, they work in teams to find them, and then do a bit of research to find how to make the text more accurate. So much critical thinking in one 10-minute activity you probably never dreamed of! Find the easy steps to create this activity here. This scaffold puts a twist on the joys of celebrating mistakes. To truly show our students how errors
3rd - 6th
Scaffolding Academic Language with Hieroglyphics (Lower Primary)
Using this fantastic play on Egyptian hieroglyphs to learn academic language is priceless! Your students sound out images you show them and add or subtract vowels or consonants. In doing so, they learn vocabulary and connection to specific images, plus the nuances of the pronunciation of the words. What more could you possibly add to one activity - oh yes - lots of fun!!! The key to this activity is the fun students have in sounding out the images placed before them and then adding or subtractin
K - 3rd
Scaffolding Academic Language through Visual Differences (Primary)
You have found one of the most exciting and diverse activities to learn vocabulary in an active, refreshing, original way – using visual clues to verbalise differences. While your students distinguish anomalies in the images you’ve given them, they are actually learning the key vocabulary of the unit they’re about to begin. Too much fun!!! Memorise vocabulary? Forget it! Studies show that while memorising academic language is effective in the short term – to pass exams, for instance, in the long
1st - 6th
Scaffolding Academic Language with What's Missing (Lower Primary)
Even our youngest students are facing a professional career in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which means we need to give them as many opportunities as possible to become more divergent thinkers than technology is. This scaffold gives them the opportunity to use discernment, creativity and negotiating skills to identify information that is present and information that is not present. You’ll see that the quality of thinking your students reach in your classes after participating i
PreK - 3rd
Doorways to Learning with Cipher Wheels
Want a fast, FREE activity to make your lessons dyanmic? THIS is it! You're about to start a unit and you know your students are going to either groan, disconnect immediately, complain that it's too difficult - anything but engage. Mini-Lessons - a quick 3-step structure to use to plan lessons - solve this problem. When we begin with a SCAFFOLDING technique - in this case the CIPHER WHEEL - and end with a REFLECTION, we begin celebrating different learning styles, and end asking them to process
4th - 10th
Reading, Science
Scaffolding Challenging Terms and Academic Language (Secondary)
This FREE scaffolding technique help students bridge gaps so that they can engage in challenging units with more ease. It integrates images and linguistics giving students support in different learning styles. They learn the parameters of a term experientially, using vocabulary that is provided, discerning differences in images and paying close attention to details in the information given. Critical thinking, multiple possibilities for recognising truths, and verbalisation will engage your stude
5th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts
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About the store
Experience
Teacher since 1992 (more than 30 years!)
Teacher-trainer for the past 15 years
Author (101 Scaffolding Techniques for the Content and Language Teacher)
Professor (Universidad de Jaén, Universidad de Valencia, Spain), Teacher-trainer, and collaborator with international educational institutions
Teaching style
Donna specialises in innovative language and content educational materials including the CLIL approach (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and Phenomenon-Based Learning. Her focus is on scaffolds, which are activities and techniques that introduce learners to a new concept, the academic language, or content, before they begin the main body of the lesson.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Creator of award-nominated website Scaffoldingmagic.com designed to provide teachers with resources to help to turn 21st centuries into activities.
My own education history
UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, 2005 - 2012
Doctoral studies, Spanish literature
Department of Humanities, Translation and Communication
UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA, 2002 – 2003
Masters, Spanish Language and Culture
UNIVERSITY OF SANTA FE, 1993-1994
Bachelor of Arts, Education
SKIDMORE COLLEGE, 1978-1982
Bachelor of Arts, Literature
Additional biographical information
Donna Lee Fields, Ph.D., author (101 Scaffolding Techniques for the Content and Language Teacher)
Professor (Universidad de Jaén, Universidad de Valencia, Spain)
Teacher-trainer, and collaborator with international educational institutions such as York Press (U.K., Egypt), Oxford University Press (Spain, U.K., Italy), Richmond Press (Latin America, Spain), Educluster (Finland), and Programa BEDA (Spain).
Author of the first four volumes of What if..The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Phenomenon-Based Learning Projects.
Doodles with Donna, a podcast focused on bringing education at all levels and angles of education to a more lucid discussion between teachers and parents.
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