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From https://sandymillin.wordpress.com

We know that the concept of scaffolding is important for language instruction. Initially, the teacher provides lots of support in order for students to perform the task, but as students gain skills, the teacher withdraws the supports so that students can perform tasks independently. However, it’s not always clear what scaffolding looks like in practice. In this blog post, English language teacher Sandy Millin describes different phases in providing fewer and fewer supports while elementary school students prepare and perform a comic book story: https://sandymillin.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/the-scaffolding-continuum/