The SIOP Model

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The SIOP Model

• Teaching ENL Students

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• His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how
  merry!
• His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a
  cherry!
• His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
• And the beard of his chin was as white as the
  snow

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What is the SIOP model

• Sheltered instruction (SIOP) is an approach for
  teaching content to English learners (ELs) in
  strategic ways that make the subject matter
  concepts comprehensible while promoting the
  students English language development.
• Echevarria, Vogt, and Short-Making Content
  Comprehensible for English Learners, page 2

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The Eight Steps of a SIOP Lesson

• 1. Preparation
• 2. Building Background
• 3. Comprehensible Input
• 4. Strategies
• 5. Interaction
• 6. Practice/Application
• 7. Lesson Delivery
• 8. Review/Assessment

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Ideas for Preparation

• Write content and language objectives on the
  board.
• Create Outlines for notes, so that students can
  just fill in the blanks while trying to follow
  along.
• Highlighted Text- If your department can spare a
  few textbooks, highlight important vocabulary and
  ideas in the text before you teach that unit.

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Ideas for Preparation

• Marginal notes- As well as highlighting text, you
  could also place simplified definitions or notes
  in the margins. If you cant write in the text,
  use post-its.
• Taped/Adapted text
• Watching the films before the unit or book. If
  you dont want the rest of the class to
  pre-watch, ask Mrs. Dunn or I to let them watch
  it in our room during our free times, before, or
  after school.

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Building Background Ideas

• Try to link concepts to students background
  experience.
• Have students create personal dictionaries
• Content Word Walls in classrooms
• Concept Definition Map
• Visual Vocabulary with pictures- I have found
  Google to be useful for this.

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Comprehensible Input Ideas

• Use appropriate speech.
• Small group instruction
• At least 2 different grouping structures should
  be used during a lesson.
• Thumbs up/ Thumbs down- agree/disagree type
  responses
• Numbered wheels or fingers-Use for multiple
  choice
• Response boards- dry-erase mini boards. Students
  can give answers in unison to avoid
  embarrassment.

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Ideas for Strategies

• Hand out has a many wonderful strategies
  throughout to use.
• Strategy One Preview and Predict
• Step One Students skim a text by looking at
  pictures, bold words, and captions.
• Step Two Partners- In partners, students either
  write a complete sentence or make picture of what
  they believe will be covered.
• Step Three Regroup- Place pairs together to
  share their ideas.
• Step Four Place ideas on board and discuss.
• Step Five Read the selection.

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Ideas for Strategies

• Strategy Two GIST
• Step One Students read a selection and pick 10
  important words out.
• Step Two From words, students will write
  summarizing sentence.
• Step Three Write statements on board.
• Step Four Read selection and cross out summaries
  that dont work and keep ones that do.

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Ideas for Strategies

• Strategy Three Graffiti Write
• Step One Each team is located next to chart
  paper. A topic is then given by teacher.
• Step Two At the same time, teams will write
  thoughts and questions on topic.
• Step Three Students will then rotate to new
  station and try to answer other teams questions
  or pose new ideas after reading comments.
• Step Four Post interesting results.

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Ideas for Interaction

• Provide many opportunities for interaction and
  discussion.
• Use a variety of grouping configurations
• Four corners
• Roundtable
• Writing headlines for summarizing
• Jigsaw
• Information gap activities

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Ideas for Practice and Application

• Lots of hands-on materials
• Integrate reading, writing, speaking, and
  listening into each lesson.
• Small groups and partners
• Reporting orally

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Lesson Delivery

• Clearly support content and language objectives.
• Engage students
• Reduce teacher talk
• Pace rate that you give information according to
  levels in your classroom
• Give enough time to accomplish tasks

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Review and Assessment

• Review key vocabulary
• Review Key Concepts
• Use a variety of quick reviews such as the
  following
• Agree/Disagree
• Thumbs up/ thumbs down
• Numbered wheels
• Response boards