SIOP Day 2 Building Background

Building Background: • How am I teaching key vocabulary? • Would you like to try a vocabulary teaching approach from SIOP? • Have you tried/would you like to try Dr. Margarita Calderon’s 3 Tiers of vocabulary? • Are you using cognates? • Have you tried/would you like to try teaching the text backwards?

SIOP Day 2 Comprehensible Input

Comprehensible Input: Speech appropriate for student proficiency levels activity- E for everyday; S for sometimes; N for never 1. Face students 2. Enunciate clearly 3. Pause frequently 4. Paraphrase and repeat often 5. Avoid asides 6. Clarify pronouns; you (you singular or you plural) 7. Point out cognates for students who have a Latin base 8. Monitor rate of speech, vocabulary/idioms, and sentence structure to match PLs 9. Consider proficiency of students

SIOP Day 2 Interaction

Interaction Ask yourself; Have I provided: • Frequent opportunities for interaction • Grouping configurations support objectives • Sufficient wait time for student responses consistently provided • Ample opportunities for students to clarify key concepts in L1

Day 2 SIOP Strategies

Strategies: Have you tried any of these? How could you add this into your lesson? 1. Verbal: paraphrases, think-alouds, slowing speech, reinforcing contextual definitions 2. Instructional: sentence frames, conversation prompts, Graphic organizers, modeling 3. Procedural; use of grouping configurations that provided different levels of support as they gain greater levels of language proficiency