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    The Inner World of Teaching: Exploring Assumptions Which Promote Change and Development (Chap. 8 "Theme Three: Scaffolding and Shepherding") » Read Now

    by Ciaran Sugrue. 254 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    A practical book which, through case study, exercises and engages the reader in a close examination of their own personal assumptions, practices and experiences of school life. The book takes a good look at the assumptions that prevail in different schools and circumstances and shows how the desire...
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    Contexts for Learning: Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development (Chap. 6 "What Is Missing in the Metaphor of Scaffolding?") » Read Now

    by Ellice A. Forman, Norris Minick, C. Addison Stone. 416 pgs.

    This provocative new work on children's development in context presents recent theoretical developments and research findings that have been generated by sociocultural theory. Sociocultural theory began with the work of L.S. Vygotsky and his colleagues but has been significantly expanded and...
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    Motivating Reading Comprehension: Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (Chap. 3 "Scaffolding for Motivation and Engagement in Reading") » Read Now

    by John T. Guthrie, Allan Wigfield, Kathleen C. Perencevich. 326 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction in which inquiry science provides a point of departure for reading instruction. Book will appeal to experienced teachers, in-service professionals and prospective teachers.
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    Speaking, Reading, and Writing in Children with Language Learning Disabilities: New Paradigms in Research and Practice (Chap. 7" Promises and Pitfalls of Scaffolded Instruction for Students with Language Learning Disabilities") » Read Now

    by Katharine G. Butler, Elaine R. Silliman. 363 pgs.

    The ability to use language in more literate ways has always been a central outcome of education. Today, however, "being literate" requires more than functional literacy, the recognition of printed words as meaningful. It requires the knowledge of how to use language as a tool for analyzing...
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    Second and Foreign Language Learning through Classroom Interaction (Chap. 9 "Teacher Questions as Scaffolded Assistance in an ESL Classroom") » Read Now

    by Joan Kelly Hall, Lorrie Stoops Verplaetse. 328 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    This volume brings together the current theoretical interest in reconceptualizing second and foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective on language and learning, with practical concerns about second and foreign language pedagogy. It presents a set of studies whose focus is on the...
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    Scaffolding Students' Reading of History, in Social Studies » Read Now

    by Michael F. Graves, Patricia G. Avery. 5 pgs.

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    Internet Environments for Science Education (Chap. 3 "The Scaffolded Knowledge Integration Framework for Instruction," Chap. 9 "The Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE): Scaffolding Knowledge Integration in the Science Classroom," and Chap. 13 "Specific Design Principles: Elaborating the Scaffolded Knowledge Integration Framework") » Read Now

    by Marcia C. Linn, Elizabeth A. Davis, Philip Bell. 412 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Illustrates how to leverage inquiry and technology to reform science education; offers education professionals, cognitive researchers, policy makers, and natural scientists the opportunity to work together to convert student into lifelong learners.
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    Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology (Chap. 31 "Cognitive Apprenticeship in Educational Practice: Research on Scaffolding, Modeling, Mentoring, and Coaching as Instructional Strategies") » Read Now

    by David H. Jonassen. 1210 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Sponsored by the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), the second edition of this ground-breaking handbook updates and expands its review of the research, theory, issues, and methodology that constitute the field of educational communications and technology. Organized into...
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