SIOP: Comprehensible

Input
Anna, Jess, Julia, Alba
SIOP Model
- Lesson Preparation
- Interaction
- Building Background
- Practice and Application
- Comprehensible Input
- Lesson Delivery
- Strategies
- Review and Assessment
Learning Styles

● Visual: PowerPoint Presentation

● Auditory: Listen and Draw Activity
● Kinesthetic: Movement/performance of skits during the centers at the end
● Social: Working together in groups
● Applied: Using the facts from the PowerPoint
Comprehensible Input

What is comprehensible input?

What Is It?

Comprehensible input is:

- language input that could be understood by listeners

despite them not understanding all the words and
structures in it.
What Is It? Continued

- Teachers give input that the students can easily

understand due to its high quality and relevance.
- Comprehensive input helps them use information that
they already know to understand and interpret new
linguistic concepts.
 What is it? (cont.)
- The type of input you provide to your listener is expressed as i + 1.
- For an input to be comprehensible, it needs to be just one level above that of
the listener (termed as “i”).
- Doing so ensures that the learner is able to understand the essence of the
input and deduce its meaning and purpose base on other contextual cues.
How Does the SIOP Model Help ELL
Students?
- Helps ELL students to…..
- develop better English skills,
- develop an understanding of academic concepts,
- and provide perspective on what is and isn't
relevant information.
 Comprehensible Input Strategies
- Direct Instruction- For beginner ELLS, students watch the teacher do
the activity, and then the students model it
- Joint Construction- For developing ELL, students can follow the
instructions but still need some assistance from the teacher.
- Coached Construction- For expanding ELLs, teachers can use this
strategy to observe ELL students and offer suggestions only as
needed
- Monitoring- For advanced students/ bridging ELLs that require
minimum guidance and are capable of following instructions without
constant supervision.
Strategies (cont.)

● sensory scaffolds (ie: models, manipulatives, visuals)

● interactive scaffolds (ie: discussions, partner work, dramatizations)
and
● graphic scaffolds (ie: tables, charts, timelines, infographics)
Comprehensive Input Activities
- Use different sources of input
- Tell stories
- Visualize
- Sing Songs
- Play games
- Specialized reading
- Watch news or movies
- Correction of mistakes
- Listen and draw
- Adapt your speech
 Making Content Comprehensible
- Teachers should talk to the class as if they are facilitating understanding and teaching
in a manageable way.
- One way to chunk information is to divide it into important details, significant events,
or complex concepts.
- Using strategies such as Think, Pair, Share, allows the ELL student to take 1-3 minutes
to process the information that was just learned.
- After teaching, letting the students talk among themselves shifts from teaching at ELL
students to inviting them to discuss content.
- When we make content clearer, it really means designing lessons that invite ELs to
engage, think, and create.
Comprehensible Input with Technology
- Technology can contain elements of sensory, interactive, and graphic scaffolding.
- Students love to be on the computers, creating things such as timelines on computers can be a
good visual that also goes along with the use of technology.
- There are boxes for events, wars and people involved that students were to move around to
the correct location.
- Engaging with content by using scaffolds or technology shifts passive learning into active
learning.
Listen and Draw Activity
Directions: Listen to the poems and draw what you hear.
 Center 1
Directions: Choose one of the four instruction types: Direct, Joined,
Coached, Monitoring, and create a mini demo about how you would use this
type of instruction to benefit your ELL students. Perform your skit in front of
the class and the class will have to guess which instruction type it is.
Center 2
Directions: Use one of the input strategies: Use different sources of input,
Tell stories, Visualize, Sing Songs, Play games, Specialized reading, Watch
news or movies, Correction of mistakes, Listen and draw, Adapt your speech,
to create some type of activity that you would use for your ELL students and
perform your skit.
-We discussed some tips on how teachers can make comprehensible input, what
is some advice you would give to future educators?

-We discussed some ways how you can integrate technology with
comprehensible input. What are some examples of technology that you can use
for your own lesson?
References

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/comprehensible-input

Comprehensible-input-strategies

https://www.empoweringells.com/el-friendly-instruction/