What are BICS & CALP?

BICS= Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills

• Involves using language for social, face-to-face and every day situations.
• Highly contextualized and provides lots of clues for comprehension.
• Takes 0-2 years to acquire

Examples:

• Hi, how’s it going?
• Can I have a bathroom pass?
• Want to be my partner?

CALP= Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

• Involves language skills and functions of an academic or cognitive nature.
• Language needed to accomplish academic tasks.
• Takes about 7-10 years to acquire.

Examples:

• During Civil War times, most businessmen in the north made profits from industry.
• The sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
• Can you explain the second phase of meiosis?

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP): Lesson Planning

The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model is a research-based instructional model that has proven effective in addressing the academic needs of English learners throughout the world. SIOP is used for both ELL and classroom educators alike as they seek effective ways to help ELL students succeed in K-12 ELL, content area, and bilingual classrooms. Research shows that when teachers fully implement the SIOP Model, English learners' academic performance improves.

In addition, teachers report that SIOP-based teaching benefits all students, not just those who are learning English as an additional language.

I've included instructional strategies connected to components of the SIOP method in alignment with WIDA that ELL and classrooms teachers can use as tools to design and deliver lessons that address the academic and linguistic needs of English learners.

ELL & Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) GLOSSARY

This is a glossary for ELL and SIOP strategies. It contains links to video and templates for many of the strategies listed.

SIOP Components & Activities Chart

This chart lists SIOP components and features with specific activities for each component. These methods are used in ELL class and can be used in classroom instruction.

SIOP Lesson Planning Reference

This list of SIOP strategies provides a description of tools both classroom teachers and ELL teachers can use when planning daily lessons for ELL students.

Bloom's Taxonomy Action Verbs

Bloom's Taxonomy Action Verbs chart provides language to be used while writing content and language objectives.

The iPadagogy Wheel contains action verbs, suggested activities, and iPad app recommendations for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Balanced Literacy

The purpose of Balanced Literacy is to find a better way to incorporate heavy phonics-based instruction and literacy skills. It includes three important components when teaching reading and writing:

• The teacher MODELS (I do)
• The teacher SUPPORTS learners as the practice it (WE do)
• Learners WORK INDEPENDENTLY (YOU do)

Reading Components

Read Aloud

Reading aloud involves children reading for enjoyment and provides an adult demonstration of fluent reading. (See BOOKS FOR COMPREHENSION)

Shared Reading

Student interactivity is the distinguishing feature of Shared Reading versus Reading Aloud.

Guided Reading

Teaching students to independently use reading strategies at their instructional level. It is a bridge between shared reading and independent reading

Independent Reading

In independent reading, children assume the responsibility for the learning demonstrated during more supportive components of a Balanced Literacy Program.

Writing Components

Modeled or Shared Writing (Write Aloud)

In modeled writing the teacher writes a story for the students and models it out loud. Teachers compose and write the story while the students watch. During a shared writing, children provide the ideas and the teacher supports the process as a scribe. The teacher provides full support, modeling and demonstrating the process of putting children’s ideas into written language. This is very similar to “Language Experience” writing.

Interactive Writing (Shared Pen)

During an interactive writing exercise, the students compose and write the story. The students share the pen as they write the story. The teacher selects students based on prior knowledge and then guides the process by providing support when necessary.

Guided Writing

Guided writing supports students as they practice writing skills and knowledge

• Small groups
• Patterned writing
• Guided revisions
• Writing conferences

Independent Writing

Students demonstrate their writing abilities independently. This should incorporate responses to their writing such as “Author’s Chair” or individual readings.

Reading and Writing Components

Phonics

Phonics is integrated throughout the Balanced Literacy Model. Phonics teaches that symbols represent sounds. Phonics attaches symbols to spoken words. In contrast, phonemic awareness is an oral activity and is the consciousness of individual phonemes and attending to sounds.

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness is an awareness of individual sounds that make up spoken language and the ability to attend to those sounds, differentiate the sounds and manipulate them in speech. A child with phonemic awareness can also recognize the individual sounds that make up that word.