The Rising Star Scaffolding Guide: Supporting Young Children's Early Spelling Skills

Supporting early writing skills in pre-kindergarten lays an important foundation for later achievement as well reading achievement. Specifically, encouraging children to write affords teachers the opportunity provide scaffolds improve spelling development. Teachers, however, tend more support than necessary guide children's spelling, which may stifle opportunities engage thinking that helps them grow their literacy knowledge. In this article, we introduce Rising Star Scaffolding Decision Guide, a step-by-step framework use when selecting instructional moves development while engaging one-on-one interactions with children. We describe types of can children, emphasis on low-support (RISE) and high-support (STAR). include examples teacher–child illustrate specific scaffolding techniques based attempts.