The SIOP Model

Critical Aspects and Indicators

PREPARATION • Preparation

• Building
Background
Three • Comprehensible
Critical Input Eight
Aspects INSTRUCTION • Strategies Components
• Interaction
• Practice and
Application
• Lesson Delivery

REVIEW AND • Review and

ASSESSEMENT Assessment

Aspects of Preparation:
• Content objectives Practice and Application
• Language objectives • Hands-on materials and manipulatives
• Content concepts • Activities requiring students to apply
• Supplementary materials knowledge of content and language
• Adaptation of content • Activities that use all literacy domains
• Meaningful activities Lesson Delivery
• Support of content objectives
Aspects of Instruction: • Support of language objectives
Building Background • Appropriate engagement of students
• Students’ life experiences • Appropriate pacing
• Students’ prior learning experiences
• Key vocabulary Aspects of Review and Assessment:
Comprehensible Input • Review of key vocabulary
• Appropriate speech • Review of content concepts
• Techniques to clarify content concepts • Ongoing feedback for students
• Clear explanations of academic tasks regarding language production and the
Strategies application of new content concepts
• Opportunities for students to use strategies • Formal and informal assessment of
• Use of a variety of question types student progress toward attaining
• Scaffolding techniques content and language objectives
Interaction
• Discussion and in-depth responses about concepts
• Sufficient response wait time
• Appropriate grouping configurations
• Clarification of lesson material in L1

Adapted from: S. Herrera and K. Murry, Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods, 2005