Students can scaffold too! (who knew?)
Can I talk for a second about a concept in Weaver's Grammar Plan Book? This just stopped me in my tracks . . . "Visual Scaffolding" ! I liked the idea that students can visually and physically assemble a scaffold of a concept for their own use and reference in their notes/writers notebook.
Scaffolding in my mind has always been more of a teacher lesson planning thing, but I really liked the idea of having a physical manifestation of scaffolding for students to refer back to. GREAT for visual learners, and for those with sketchy memory skills. They can refer back to these examples when they write, for ideas as well as a reminder. Doing this in grammar lessons (as part of the writing process, of course) can be done in the same manner that I cut and hand out quotes for when I teach Relief Society.
