The Key Developmental Indicator (KDI) Scaffolding Charts provide practical examples to help adults scaffold early learning as they implement the HighScope Preschool Curriculum. Scaffolding is the term HighScope uses to describe how adults support children at their current developmental level and gently extend their thinking and reasoning to the next level when the children are ready.

Adapted from the scaffolding charts in The HighScope Preschool Curriculum, the 58 scaffolding charts in this set, one for each KDI, are organized by the eight content areas of HighScope's curriculum: Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Physical Development and Health; Language, Literacy, and Communication; Mathematics; Creative Arts; Science and Technology; and Social Studies. Each scaffolding chart contains examples of what young children at three developmental levels (earlier, middle, and later) might do and say as they engage with each KDI, with corresponding examples of how adults can support and gently extend learning at each level as they play and interact with children through the program day. This set also includes a short description of each content area.