Hey, You! Get Off of My SIOP!
Pronunciation
Listening and Reading
Writing
Potpourri Deux
100
As a key component of SIOP, this Vygotsky-inspired idea occurs when teachers provide a framework for students to develop or build knowledge by helping or guiding a them through a task or concept. 
What is scaffolding?
100

When an L2 speaker uses the rules and sounds of their L1, this is the result. 

What is an accent?

100

These kinds of reading activities aim to model good reading strategies, engage readers actively with the text, and help learners understand how to read more effectively.

What are during-reading activities?

100

Different forms of writing that share cultural norms of overall structure, specific language features, and a specific purpose are called these.

What are genres?

100

This kind of rubric provides an overall description or summary of student performance, differing from its more descriptive sibling. 

What is a holistic rubric?

200
Content objectives are usually drawn from these. 
What is the state subject area standard?
200

So students are understood by whomever they speak with - in other words, this term is the generally accepted goal for pronunciation instruction. 

What is intelligibility?

200

Both reading and listening involve the active construction on meaning and they both also involve this proficiency component rather than production.

What is comprehension?

200

This writing genre aims to persuade people to take a particular view about an issue.

What is argumentative?

200

This is when teachers provide students with more than one chance to access information if any part of spoken classroom talk is missed. 

What is message abundancy?

300
Stephen Krashen's stamp of approval is all over this key SIOP feature.
What is Comprehensible Input?
300

Pronunciation instruction can fall on a spectrum between these two broad types of activities.

What are mechanical and communicative?

300

Goodman (1967) pointed out that readers access three kinds of knowledge in which to gain meaning from text: syntactic - knowledge of the structure of the language, graphophonic - knowledge of the relationships between sounds and letters, and this type of knowledge about the world and the topic of the text.

What is semantic?

300

Not only might ELLs lack awareness of the grammatical structures and cultural norms that are expected, but they also may be unfamiliar with this essential component of a genre. 

What is the organizational structure?

300

When reaching the top of Bloom's Taxonomy, these are the two highest levels of thinking

What are evaluate and create?

400

If a class lesson only entails exchanges between the teacher and the whole class, what SIOP component is being neglected?

What is Interaction?

400

One of the main aspects of pronunciation, these are the phonemes, or the smallest units of sound that are used in a language, such as consonants or vowels.

What are segmentals?

400

Luke and Freebody (1990) argued that readers need to take on four different roles in order to achieve literary success. These are two of those four.

What are the reader as code breaker, text participant, text user, and/or text analyst?

400

When teachers focus on the aspects of language that allow students to reflect on how language is used for a wide range of purposes and audiences, it is known as this. 

What is explicit writing teaching?

400

This concept deals with how language changes as it moves from speaking to writing and can be used in designing lessons.

What is the mode continuum? 

500
Not only should content and language objectives be in student-friendly language and shared in writing and in speaking, but they should also be SMART which stands for this. 
What is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time Based?
500

Another main aspect of pronunciation, these are the broad positions of the organs of speech (jaw, lips, tongue, etc.) that affect the overall character of speech used by members of a language group.

What are voice quality settings?

500

Nunan (1990) suggested that listening occurs in four types of contexts. There are two broad types of topics, everyday interpersonal and information-based, and there are also these two types of "directions." 

What are two-way and one-way?

500

Derewianka (1990) identified four stages known as the Teaching and Learning Cycle in which a particular genre can be made explicit to students. Stage 1 is building the field. Stage 2 is modeling the genre. Stage 3 is joint construction. Stage 4 is this. 

What is independent writing?

500

This is a concise definition of reliability in assessment.

What is the degree of consistency found in assessment results?

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