ABSTRACT
The chapter starts with discussing two major challenges facing teachers in primary grades as they scaffold their students’ learning: how to support children’s engagement in learning activity and how to provide additional scaffolds to the children who have not attained developmental accomplishments of the previous stage necessary to meet the demands of formal schooling. The chapter then offers some practical suggestions on how to use Vygotskian-based scaffolding tactics to help children learn how to learn by internalizing learning standards, identifying learning goals, and transferring newly learned skills and concepts from one learning task to another. In the following section, step-by-step formation is described as one of the ways to support the development of learning actions, and the application of this approach to teaching writing is then illustrated using an example of the Scaffolded Writing method.
