Lesson Prep & Building Background
Comprehensible Input & Strategies
Interaction
Practice/Application
Lesson Delivery & Review/Assessment
100
The four domains of language
What is listening, speaking, reading, writing
100
Instructions presented in a step-by-step manner, preferably modeled or demonstrated.
What is a clear explanation of academic tasks?
100
Brain stimulation, increased motivation, reduced risk, more processing time, increased attention
What are the benefits of active student interaction around academics?
100
Helps them connect abstract concepts with concrete experiences
What are opportunities to practice with hands-on materials?
100
90-100% of the instructional period
What is the amount of time that students should be engaged?
200
A statement about the day's activities that will support students' language development
What is the language objective?
200
Gestures, models, previews, alternative forms, multimedia, repetition, sentence strips, graphic organizers, audiotaped texts
What are techniques to clarify content concepts?
200
"Tell me more about that," "What do you mean by...?" "How do you know?"
What are techniques to encourage elaboration of student responses?
200
Clustering, using graphic organizing, solving problems cooperatively, journaling, discussing in small groups.
What are ways to apply new information?
200
Language and Content objectives
What is clearly supported in a SIOP lesson?
300
A statement about the day's lesson that is correlated to state standards
What is the content objective?
300
Metacognitive, cognitive and social/affective
What are types of learning strategies?
300
Opportunities to learn new information, discuss it and process it.
What does varying grouping configurations provide?
300
The resource for "tried and true" SIOP ideas for practice and application
What is the "99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English learners with the SIOP Model?"
300
Vocabulary and content concepts
What are important review topics?
400
A critical component for the academic achievement of English learners
What is vocabulary development?
400
Support and assistance provided during the earliest stages of learning (or a construction project!)
What is scaffolding?
400
One, (one thousand) two, (one thousand) three, (one thousand) four,...
What is wait time?
400
Fill-in-the-blank listening activity adapted for varying proficiency levels
What is a scaffolded cloze dictation?
400
Restating, paraphrasing, orally, in writing, facial expressions, body language
What are examples of teacher feedback?
500
Word sorts, contextualizing key vocabulary, personal dictionaries, word walls, cloze sentences, etc.
What are approaches of vocabulary development?
500
Questions that promote critical thinking develop these
What higher order thinking skills?
500
An important support for the academic learning of students who are not yet fully proficient in English
What is clarification of key concepts in a student's first langauge?
500
A way to teach that furthers both language and content development
What is teaching through all four modalities: listening, speaking, reading, writing?
500
To see if it appropriate to move on or necessary to review and reteach
What is the purpose of on-going assessments?
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