A Scaffolded Approach to Helping Students Organize Their Thoughts to Support a Choice. Promote high-quality instruction with this teacher-developed, scaffolded resource for organizing thinking to clearly support a choice. Enhance students’ confidence, promote independent learning, and assist students to reach proficiency in grade-level targets with included scaffolding such as sentence starters, guiding questions, word banks with pictures, real photography, and graphic organizers. Students look at the photos and read the prompt on their own or with a partner. They decide which they would rather do and think about why. They read the words in the boxes below each picture to help them think about each option. They are asked to reflect on their choice with questions like “Why is your choice the best option?” or “What do you like most about your choice?” Students can discuss or write about their choice and use the extra support provided as needed. Providing opportunities to practice decision-making in low stakes environments can help children when they are faced with tough choices.

• WHAT YOU GET: 15 Prompt Cards. Each card is 6” x 4” each.
  
• SCAFFOLDED: Includes scaffolding such as sentence starters, guiding questions, word banks with pictures, real photography, and graphic organizers.
  
• SKILLS BASED & CREATED BY TEACHERS: This product is purposefully created by teachers who have real-world classroom experience to align to multiple learning standards. Skills covered include decision-making, evoking prior knowledge, building support for a choice, communicating preferences and reasons, supporting a claim, and building vocabulary.
  
• INDEPENDENT PRACTICE BUILDS CONFIDENCE: Children develop confidence as they complete and interact with these materials independently.
  
• SUPPORTS SMALL GROUPWORK AND DISCUSSION: Pair up students or form groups to easily facilitate discussion regarding choices.