Good Reads, Videos

The SIOP Model Components

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The following post contains features of each of the 8 SIOP components, accompanying resources for each, and videos for each. The resources are from a Pearson SIOP training I attended years ago.

Lesson Preparation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFQmpKZUxFSHBGWWowS1gtSi1Nc3NLU1hNYWZZ/view?usp=sharing

Building Background

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFZU5pN0JrdFA2OVpsSWRCMkVUTE40V1VUcnVV/view?usp=sharing

Comprehensible Input

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFNTlmSGxraGRIZ0NyTWoyb3BHWXZTOEk5TmdZ/view?usp=sharing

Strategies

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFeFF6aUF5eGJKck56YkNMNHc0V1laWktJbHFj/view?usp=sharing

Interaction

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFMV9sdDR3b185dV9HaHhmTmdoTXRZNDhsME5j/view?usp=sharing

Practice and Application

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFYXVKZlNpSXhQZzhyb3VkbkxpTjJkSWFCRjNJ/view?usp=sharing

Lesson Delivery

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFMGZlSVdyVFVWbjNzdDRtSEc3azBOZXJQc2RB/view?usp=sharing

Review and Assessment

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0XbLXzvhkdFVDg1RllDbkg5elRDZGZ6MzNLdmtlMkFUWTM4/view?usp=sharing

Assessment, Technology Resources, Videos

The SIOP Method: Strategies and Supplemental Materials

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The SIOP (sheltered instruction observation protocol) method also focuses on the use of strategies in the classroom. This video does a great job explaining the difference between teaching strategies and learning strategies, and also gives great examples of cognitive versus metacognitive strategies.

Graphic organizers are an excellent way to get your students to organize their ideas when reading for different purposes. I love the way these organizers are created for specific reading strategies and how the strategies are explained in detail. Click the link below to see this awesome resource!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nGWuzKajOQbA4sZtByg7XsjCjn2UHqUW

Supplemental materials are essential to the success of our CLD students. Teaching students to identify text structures and write using these structures can be very challenging. I use an anchor chart like the one below with my students and also have gestures for each structure. When reading expository text, we refer to the anchor chart and use the gestures to identify the structures we come in contact with. In addition, I love using these sentence frames with my CLD students as a support when they are asked to write with specific structures. Click on the link below to check them out.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qoOSQ0H2NpdE6gyV3QRNqFa5Q5rdR-Cr

Technology Resources, Videos

The CALLA Method and Importance of Strategies

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The CALLA (cognitive academic language learning approach) method focuses on explicitly teaching language learners to understand and apply metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies (Chamot, 2009; Chamot & O’Malley, 1994). This brief video discusses the why and the how of cognitive and metacognitive strategies and includes some great graphics.

Having your students annotate the text while reading is a great way for them to monitor their thinking and understanding. I love this “Meta” anchor text that has simple symbols that can be used to annotate while reading, leading to greater comprehension.

I really like this document because each reading strategy has sentence stems/starters to go with it. This could be a great resource for our CLD students when providing prompts to get them talking about what they are reading and the strategies they are using.

https://pin.it/giqixzezqt2myv

Good Reads

Handy WIDA Documents

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To be successful teachers of CLD students, we must learn to integrate language development into academic content. The WIDA standards are a great resource to help us create language objectives. From the WIDA website: “WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards represent the social, instructional and academic language students use to engage with peers, educators and the curriculum in schools. The Standards highlight the language needed to meet academic expectations as described by state, college and career readiness standards, and other content standards such as Next Generation Science Standards.”

I found these documents from the WIDA site helpful and I hope that you do too!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E3c6CjWvk3-apbBclr28r94azh4y79NH

Technology Resources

Theme-Overcoming Obstacles and Teaching Grit

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The first unit I teach every year is Overcoming Obstacles. It sets the stage for a growth mindset and is a great way to motivate the students to try hard and never give up. I have included some resources that I use for the unit, including links to videos, song lyrics and questions, a parent article, and a vocabulary power point. I have described how I launch the unit with the “Think in Threes” formative assessment.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UFt3BZE3DmrG7OkTbyO1cGKUdxxRpFXx

Think In Threes Formative Assessment

I use this to launch the theme of Overcoming Obstacles. We usually view a video, listen to a song, and read an article, all related to the theme. The article “Malala The Powerful” , from Storyworks magazine is a great one to use, Grit: The Key to Your Success is a great video, and I love using the song “Am I Wrong?”. After we listen, view, or read, the students discuss how each of the three things is related to the theme, then jot down their ideas in one of the three parts of the triangle. The big question that we always come back to throughout the unit is listed at the bottom.

Assessment, Good Reads

Assessing our Assumptions, Unconscious Biases, Stereotypes, and Perceptual Lens

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Level 1 of the Accommodation Readiness Spiral is “readiness for critical reflection on practice”. This level requires teachers to reflect on the assumptions they make based on their prior socialization in a particular culture. I have included two resources that would be helpful on a personal level for self-reflection, but that could also be used as a training tool for teachers. I think all teachers would benefit from some of these activities targeted at assessing our own assumptions, stereotypes, and unconscious biases.

Assumptions Activity

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XBOGzepuIP2FVKpsbdfS5AdMv_UpEKId/view?usp=sharing

Examining our Unconscious Bias and Perceptual Lens Training

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RlXc-tBQdRCF4itbmpdYhmvHAT22tkzz/view?usp=sharing