SIOP Components
This SIOP component ensures students know what they will learn and how they will show their understanding.
What is Lesson Preparation?
This type of objective explicitly states how students will use language to engage with the lesson content.
What is a language objective?
Teachers can help multilingual learners understand and produce academic language by providing these structured supports for speaking and writing.
What are sentence frames and sentence stems?
The ideal wait time for a multilingual learner to process a question before responding is at least this many seconds.
What is 5-7 seconds?
Breaking tasks into smaller, manageable steps is an example of this type of instructional support.
What is chunking?
This component includes techniques like gestures, visuals, and modeling to make content understandable.
What is Comprehensible Input?
The three categories of vocabulary that should be explicitly taught are these.
What are Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 vocabulary?
A strategy where students physically act out words or concepts to reinforce learning.
What is Total Physical Response (TPR)?
This type of grouping maximizes interaction and learning, rather than keeping students in the same partnerships.
What is flexible grouping?
Graphic organizers, anchor charts, and visual word walls are examples of this type of instructional support.
Graphic organizers, anchor charts, and visual word walls are examples of this type of instructional support.
Teachers support students in talking, writing, and collaborating with peers through this component.
What is Interaction?
These types of supports, such as sentence frames, visuals, and modeling, help multilingual learners access grade-level content.
What are scaffolds?
This best practice requires students to interact in structured and purposeful ways to develop oral language and content understanding.
What is structured student interaction?
This engagement strategy requires students to demonstrate their thinking through movement, gestures, or written responses instead of just speaking.
What are nonverbal response techniques?
This scaffold provides students with partially completed responses to support structured academic discussion.
What are sentence frames or sentence stems?
Frequent checks for understanding, differentiated questioning, and providing meaningful feedback fall under this SIOP component.
What is Review & Assessment?
This instructional strategy helps students connect prior knowledge to new learning by making explicit connections.
What is activating background knowledge?
The best way to incorporate writing into a lesson is by ensuring students have had opportunities for this first.
What is oral language practice?
This engagement strategy gets students up and moving while discussing content with multiple partners.
What is a gallery walk or inside-outside circles?
Teachers can help multilingual learners by first providing this before asking them to write independently.
What is a model or guided practice?
This component ensures that instruction is delivered at a pace appropriate for students and keeps them actively involved.
What is Lesson Delivery?
This type of assessment is ongoing and used throughout instruction to guide teaching and learning.
What is formative assessment?
The key to making content rigorous yet accessible is adjusting these two things based on language proficiency.
What are task complexity and language demands?
The best way to encourage higher-order thinking and participation among all students is by ensuring they have time for this before answering.
What is structured think time or peer discussion?
These three types of scaffolding (one temporary, one instructional, and one linguistic) help students succeed.
What are verbal, procedural, and instructional scaffolding?