The 8 Parts of Siop and How They Help

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The eight SIOP components are 1) Lesson Preparation, 2) Building Background, 3) Comprehensive Input, 4) Strategies, 5) Interaction, 6) Practice and Application, 7) Lesson Delivery, and 8) Review and Assessment.

Lesson Preparation allows teacher to create a lesson that includes content area and language objectives by adapting the content, using graphic organizers, outlines, highlights, adapted texts, and meaningful activities (North Clackamas Schools, 2013).

Building Background allows the teacher to link concepts to the students' own lives and backgrounds. The concepts of the content area are thus explicitly linked between past and new concepts as well as to the students' background and key vocab words are highlighted and repeated.

Comprehensible Input is helpful in that it lets the teacher focus on delivery. It consists of using speech that is appropriate for the students' level, clearly explaining the tasks ahead, and changing up techniques so that the students receive a variety of deliveries that can help them to understand concepts.

Strategies is a component that enables the teacher to provide learning strategies using the scaffolding techniques and questions that encourage higher-order thinking skills. The students get to engage with literal, analytical and interpretive questions (Modern ELL Teacher, n.d.).

Interaction is a method of supplying interaction and discussion between students and the teacher. It promotes grouping configurations, allows students time to formulate responses, and helps to clarify key concepts.

Practice Application allows the teacher to deliver hands-on materials that helps students learn new content, utilized activities that lets students apply the content they are learning as well as to integrate the language skills they need (Peregoy, Boyle, 2013).

Lesson Delivery is a component that gives content objectives, language objectives, keeps students engaged all the time, and sets the pace of the class at an appropriate speed, which is essentially for keeping firm command of the manner in which the class is led (Gottlieb, 2006).

Review and Assessment allows the teacher to go over key vocab words, review key concepts, give feedback to students and assess the level of student comprehension (Pearson Education, 2014).