In mrs. zalinsky's first grade class she has fifth-grade students come in and read with her students to allow them to gradually increase their reading competence. which theorist has most likely influenced mrs. zalinsly's teaching practices?

Mrs. Zalinsky's teaching practices are most likely influenced by "Lev Vygotsky".

Vygotsky's Social Development Theory is crafted by Russian Lev Vygotsky who was a psychologist born in 1896. Vygotsky's work was to a great extent not known toward the West until the point that it was printed in 1962.

Vygotsky’s theory is one of the bases of constructivism. It states three noteworthy subjects with respect to social interaction, the more knowledgeable other, and the zone of proximal development.