Adapted from: S. Herrera and K. Murry, Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods, 2005

Three Critical Aspects

PREPARATION INSTRUCTION REVIEW AND ASSESSEMENT

• Preparation • Building

Background • Comprehensible

Input • Strategies • Interaction • Practice and

Application • Lesson Delivery • Review and

Assessment

Practice and Application • Hands-on materials and manipulatives • Activities requiring students to apply

knowledge of content and language • Activities that use all literacy domains

Lesson Delivery • Support of content objectives • Support of language objectives • Appropriate engagement of students • Appropriate pacing

Aspects of Review and Assessment: • Review of key vocabulary • Review of content concepts • Ongoing feedback for students

regarding language production and the application of new content concepts

• Formal and informal assessment of student progress toward attaining content and language objectives

The SIOP Model Critical Aspects and Indicators

Aspects of Preparation:

• Content objectives • Language objectives • Content concepts • Supplementary materials • Adaptation of content • Meaningful activities

Aspects of Instruction: Building Background

• Students’ life experiences • Students’ prior learning experiences • Key vocabulary

Comprehensible Input • Appropriate speech • Techniques to clarify content concepts • Clear explanations of academic tasks

Strategies • Opportunities for students to use strategies • Use of a variety of question types • Scaffolding techniques

Interaction • Discussion and in-depth responses about concepts • Sufficient response wait time • Appropriate grouping configurations • Clarification of lesson material in L1

Eight Components