by Madeleine Abood, Clare McGrade,

Emma Blennau, & Maddie Ligos

SIOP Process & Purpose
➔ Sheltered Instruction Observation
Protocol
➔ Uses both language and content
objectives
➔ 8 components
➔ Increase student achievement
◆ ELL
◆ Native language speakers
Comprehensible Input: Overview
● Technique for educators working with English Language
Learners
○ Student actively gains language learning skills
● When acquiring a new language…
○ Instruct in language “just beyond students current level
of proficiency” (ELLevation)
■ Recall your prior knowledge!
● Connect to Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal
Development
Formula!

● Formula
○ I (input)= current language ability
■ Importance of knowing student’s backgrounds
● How can this knowledge be developed?
○ +1= exposure to more advanced language
■ Result: language acquisition!
Before: Determine Current Level of Language Proficiency
● Step one
○ Determine current level of language
proficiency
■ WIDA’s Can Do Descriptors
During: Provide Compelling Input!
“while [they] may be understood, they
are understood only in a trivial sense.”
(p. 103,
Second Language Acquisition and Sec
ond Language Learning
)

Pictured left: Excerpt from

“Beyond Language
Learning”
Developing Student Awareness

● Culturally Responsive Teaching

○ Incorporating “ students’
cultures, languages, and life
experiences with what they learn
in school”
Affective Filter
● Develop student awareness
○ Student’s education is impacted by
factors beyond the classroom
■ Emphasizes importance of being
culturally aware
● Stress Reduction activities
○ Promote growth mindset
○ Host morning meetings
○ Simple meditation
○ Peer sharing (grades 3-12)
Worksheet
Lesson Video & Graphic Organizer

● Think, Pair, Share!

○ Lesson Design
■ Brief overview
■ How would you apply
comprehensible input?
● Implement at least two
strategies
Learning Styles

- Visual: Use of graphics and charts

- Oral: Lecture content from slides
- Applied: Students will create their own lesson following the SIOP model
- Social: Students will work in groups to create their own lesson plan
- Independent: Students will work individually to complete the worksheet.
References
● https://ellevationeducation.com/blog/teaching-comprehensible-input-definition-exam
ples
https://blog.vipkid.com/comprehensible-input-strategies/
● https://www.fabulingua.com/blog/comprehensible-input
● https://ellevationeducation.com/blog/teaching-comprehensible-input-definition-exam
ples