🧑‍🏫 What Is the SIOP Model?

SIOP stands for Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, a research-based framework designed to help teachers effectively instruct English Learners (ELs) while still delivering grade-level content.

It's not a separate curriculum—it’s a way of adjusting how you teach so that language learners can understand and succeed.

✅ Why Use SIOP?

• ELs need support in learning academic content and English at the same time
  
  

• SIOP helps make lessons comprehensible without watering them down
  
  

• It promotes equity, clarity, and structure in the classroom
  
  

🧱 8 Components of SIOP (with Simple Explanations)

1. Lesson Preparation

Set clear content AND language objectives. Know what students should learn and how they’ll use English.

2. Building Background

Connect lessons to students' lives and what they already know—especially in their first language.

3. Comprehensible Input

Speak clearly, slow down, use visuals, gestures, and simplify—not reduce—language.

4. Strategies

Teach and model ways to solve problems, use graphic organizers, and scaffold learning.

5. Interaction

Include structured pair or group work with sentence frames and discussion prompts.

6. Practice & Application

Give students time to use English in reading, writing, speaking, and listening tied to content.

7. Lesson Delivery

Stay on pace, revisit objectives, and keep students engaged throughout.

8. Review & Assessment

Check understanding regularly with visuals, summaries, and formative assessments.

🛠️ 5 Quick Ways to Support ELs Tomorrow

1. ✅ Post objectives in student-friendly language
   
   

2. 🧠 Pre-teach vocabulary before diving into the lesson
   
   

3. 📸 Use pictures, diagrams, charts to explain new concepts
   
   

4. 🗣️ Give sentence starters or frames for speaking and writing
   
   

5. 🔄 Ask students to paraphrase what they heard in small groups
   
   

📚 SIOP Resources for Teachers

• 📄 SIOP Model Overview (CAL)  www.cal.org/siop/
  
  

• 📘 Book: Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model 

• elimusupport.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/making-content-comprehensible-for-secondary-english-learners_the-siop-model.pdf