The SIOP Model COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT Content Objectives We

® The SIOP Model COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT

Content Objectives We will: • Discuss speech appropriate for students’ proficiency level. • Explore techniques for presenting content information in ways that students comprehend. • Identify ways to provide clear directions for academic tasks. 2

Language Objectives We will: • Use the word “should” and because to explain the importance of adapting teacher speech to increase student comprehension. • Use if-then statements to discuss the features of Comprehensible Input. 3

Comprehensible Input Features Appropriate Speech Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks A Variety of Techniques Used

Speech Appropriate for Students’ Proficiency Levels http: //pdtoolkit. pearson. com/

Share out Salvador Jasmine Michael

Use Appropriate Speech (Adjust Teacher Talk) • • Face students Enunciate clearly Pause frequently Paraphrase and repeat often Avoid asides Clarify pronouns Point out cognates Monitor rate of speech, vocabulary/idioms, and sentence structure used • Consider language proficiency of students 8

Comprehensible Input Features Appropriate Speech Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks A Variety of Techniques Used

Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks Do your students understand how to do the assigned work? • With a partner, use your text to explore SIOP techniques for giving instructions your ELs will understand. • Add ideas of your own • Whole group share out 10

Let’s Compare: Teacher 1: • Tells students to read the first 3 pages of their text to themselves to be discussed when they have finished. • Has students call out unfamiliar words as she writes them on the board. Asks students to look up assigned word in the glossary. She orally defines words not in the glossary. Teacher 2: • Orally reviews step-by-step instructions projected on a Power. Point. • Demonstrates instructions as he proceeds using a word bank and solicits peer interaction.

Comprehensible Input Features Appropriate Speech Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks A Variety of Techniques Used

Use a Variety of Techniques Mrs. Amin Ø What is the lesson about? Ø What techniques are used to make the lesson understandable? Ø What could make the lesson more comprehensible? http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=p 7 Ajm. K 77 BWM Grognet, Allene, Judith Jameson, et al. Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms. Video. Washington D. C: Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Publishing Company, 2000. 13

Teaching Techniques How to Make Content Comprehensible • Use gestures, body movements, and facial expressions • Use pantomime and dramatization • Use realia (real things), photos, pictures, drawings, technology • Model • Breakdown complex tasks into manageable steps

Teaching Scenarios • Read the scenarios you are assigned in the Comprehensible Input (CI) section of Making Content Comprehensible. p. 105 buoyancy 16

Comprehensible Input Scenarios Ø Form groups for each scenario: Count off and groups read together. 1) Mr. Dillon 2) Mr. Lew 3) Mrs. Castillo Ø Rate 0 -4: What evidence do you see of Comprehensible Input features? Ø Share out: Compare your scores with those given by D. Short, Echevarria, and M. Vogt. J. 17

Content Objectives How did we: • Discuss speech appropriate for students’ proficiency level • Explore techniques for presenting content information in ways that students comprehend • Identify ways to provide clear directions for academic tasks 18

Language Objectives How did we: • Use the words“should” and “because” to explain the importance of adapting teacher speech to increase student comprehension • Use if-then statements to discuss the features of Comprehensible Input 19

Owning Comprehensible Input Continue to write a lesson plan you can use including the features of Comprehensible Input • Speech appropriate for students’ proficiency levels • Clear explanation of academic tasks • A variety of techniques used to make content concepts clear