Reaching All Children:

• Scaffolding is designed for whole-class teaching. All students work at or above their expected grade level. Thus, curriculum demands are met for all students. And all students' self-esteem is respected.

• All students achieve outcomes at or above grade level expectations. Thus self-esteem is boosted.
  

• Students are taught an understanding of how literate language works. Thus, the whole range of levels of home literacy is catered for. With scaffolding, the performance of all students improves.

• The model of reading used enables children to read with little sound/symbol knowledge. Thus, everyone learns to read the class text, and areas of weakness can then be successfully addressed.

• Restless and inattentive students are shown how to focus on the intellectual nature of the task. Thus, no student is marginalised by behaviour problems.

• The teacher establishes 'common knowledge'. Thus, students from differing home backgrounds, valuing different kinds of knowledge, are all equally engaged.

• The teacher tells answers before she questions. Thus, everyone can join in class conversations successfully regardless of what knowledge they bring from home. All students feel included.

• The teacher monitors student results continually in non-obtrusive ways. Thus, she ensures that skills are continually improving without damaging students' fragile self-esteem. Extra help is efficiently targeted

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