S.I.O.P

S.I.O.P

1. PREPARATION

   • Clearly define language objectives
     • Write on the board and State orally
   • Choose content concepts for age appropriateness and ““fit”” with educational background of students
   • Use supplementary materials to make lessons clear and meaningful

2. Building Background

   • Explicitly link concepts to students’’ background experience
   • Make clear links between students’’ past learning and new concepts
   • Emphasize key vocabulary

3. Comprehensible Input

   • Speak appropriately to accommodate students’’ proficiency level
   • Clearly explain academic tasks
   • Use a variety of techniques to make content concepts clear
     • hands-on materials, visuals, demos, gestures, film clips

4. Strategies

   • Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies
     • Reciprocal Teaching, mnemonics, 12 minute research paper, 2 column notes, repeated readings.
   • Consistently use scaffolding techniques throughout lesson
     • Think-alouds, paraphrasing and partnering.

5. Interaction

   • Provide frequent opportunities for interaction and discussion
   • Group students to support language and content objectives
     • Use at least 2 different structures during a lesson——pairs, triads, teams, varied by language proficiency or interest
   • Give ample opportunities for clarification for concepts
     • Fopr example: In L1——use bilingual paraprofessionals, native language materials, notes by students.

6. Practice/Application.

   • Supply lots of hands-on materials.
   • Provide activities for students to apply content/language knowledge
     • Discussing and doing make abstract concepts concrete; allow students to work in partners before working alone.
   • Integrate all language skills into each lesson.
     • Listening, speaking, Reading and writing.