Susana Pérez's Task

SCAFFOLDING IN CLIL PRIMARY

Scaffolding activity

- Introduce the activity into a lesson you are teaching.

- Reflect in 3 or 4 sentences about the scaffolding process you have used

- Value the results with the students, the probability of using  scaffolding and the resources from the course to facilitate more dynamic activities  in the future.

The unit we are going to work with is “Plants” (Natural Sciences, Year 2)

We are going to introduce the unit by visual aids. We are going to divide the class into 5 groups of 5 children each. We will give out different pictures and graphic organizers (in a puzzle they have to put in order first): “The parts of a plant”, “what do plants need to grow”, “the functions of each part”, “parts of a tree” and “parts of a flower”.

Looking at the pictures they have to discuss what information do they have on the pictures and try to create two or three sentences to explain the rest of the class what the pictures are about.

The results with the students were really good; while the children were doing the puzzle and talking about the pictures I walked around the class and I could check how most of them were taking part on the activity. Some were very good at putting the pieces in order quickly. And most of them were paying attention to the others when they were explaining what they saw in the picture.

Finally, all the groups explained to the class what they could see in the pictures. They did a great effort, talking in English all the time and helping their classmates when they had some problems to finish a sentence or to find a word.

I have used more scaffolding activities in other areas and I´m sure I will continue introducing more dynamic activities in the future, because the results up to now are being very good. And also, they like the activities because it´s something new for them.