SIOP Scramble Answers

The 8 Components & 30 Features of SIOP

Component:   Lesson Preparation
  • Write content objectives clearly for students:  SWBAT….
  • Write language objectives clearly for students:  SWBAT….
  • Choose appropriate content concepts.
  • Identify supplementary materials to use.
  • Adapt content to all levels of student proficiency.
  • Plan meaningful activities that integrate lesson concepts with language practice opportunities.
Component:   Building Background
  • Explicitly link concepts to students’ backgrounds and experiences.
  • Explicitly link past learning and new concepts.
  • Emphasize key vocabulary for students.
Component:   Comprehensible Input
  • Use speech appropriate for students’ proficiency level.
  • Explain academic tasks clearly.
  • Use a variety of techniques to make content concepts clear (e.g. Modeling, visuals, hands-on activities, demonstrations, gestures, body language).
Component:   Strategies
  • Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies (e.g. Problem solving, predicting, organizing, summarizing, categorizing, evaluating, self-monitoring).
  • Use scaffolding techniques consistently throughout lesson.
  • Use a variety of question types that promote HOTS.
Component:   Interaction
  • Provide frequent opportunities for interaction and discussion between teacher/students and among students.
  • Use group configurations that support objectives of the lesson.
  • Provide sufficient wait time for student responses consistently.
  • Give ample opportunities for students to clarify key concepts in L1 as needed with aide, peer, or text.
Component:   Practice & Application
  • Provide hands-on materials and/or manipulatives for students to practice using new content knowledge.
  • Provide activities for students to apply content and language knowledge in the classroom.
  • Provide activities that integrate all language skills (i.e. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking).
Component:   Lesson Delivery
  • Support content objectives clearly.
  • Support language objectives clearly.
  • Engage students approximately 90-100% of the period.
  • Pace the lesson appropriately to the students’ ability level.
Component:   Review & Evaluation
  • Give a comprehensive review of key vocabulary.
  • Give a comprehensive review of key content concepts.
  • Provide feedback to students regularly on their output.
  • Conduct assessments of student’s comprehension and learning throughout lesson and all lesson objectives.