1. #3 Comprehensible Input
Sustaining the SIOP
#3 Comprehensible Input

2. Sustaining the SIOP Language Objectives Content Objectives
Identify techniques for presenting content information in ways that students comprehend
Review various ways to model and provide directions for academic tasks for all proficiency levels
Language Objectives
Discuss and listen to ways to modify speech that can increase student comprehension
Write ways to modify activities for students of all proficiency levels and read them to the group.

3. SIOP’s 8 Components Lesson Preparation
2) Building Background
3) Comprehensible Input
4) Strategies
5) Interaction 6) Practice & Application 7) Lesson Delivery 8) Review & Assessment

4. Sustaining the SIOP
SIOP Macarena

5. Lesson Preparation

6. Building Background

7. Comprehensible Input

8. Strategies

9. Interaction

10. Practice & Application

11. Lesson Delivery

12. Review & Assessment

13. SIOP’s 8 Components Lesson Preparation
2) Building Background
3) Comprehensible Input
4) Strategies
5) Interaction 6) Practice & Application 7) Lesson Delivery 8) Review & Assessment

14. Component #3 Comprehensible Input
Sustaining the SIOP
Component #3
Comprehensible Input

15. Mr. Cortez Video
How did the teacher purposely approach comprehensible Input?
How will Comprehensible Input help ELL students (English Language Learner)? Non-ELL’s?
What did you like about this lesson? What did you not like about this lesson?

16. Comprehensible Input: 3 Features
1) Appropriate Speech
2) Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks
3) A Variety of ESL Techniques Used

17. I Love Lucy

18. Things we can learn from Lucy
What did Lucy do to try to get her guests to understand her?
Spoke Loudly
The students can hear, they just can’t understand the language
Spoke Slower
Speaking at a slower rate is okay as long as it does not compromise meaning or pronunciation

19. Things we can learn from Lucy
What did Lucy do to try to get her guests to understand her?
Rephrasing
Synonyms are helpful for ELL students, especially for Academic Vocabulary
Gestures
Physical motion that aides comprehension is appropriate, TPR, etc.. (Her guest used a little of this)

20. Beginning Low Intermediate High Intermediate Proficient
Appropriate Speech
Beginning
Low Intermediate
High Intermediate
Proficient
Advanced Proficient
The Michigan English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA) is administered to LEP students and the students are scored based on their proficiency levels.

21. Student Proficiency Examples
Basic: Rain
Low Intermediate: The sky has clouds and there is rain.
Intermediate: The day is very cloudy and heavy rain is falling.
High Intermediate: It is a cloudy spring day and it is raining more than usual.
See Stages of Language Acquisition

22. BEW’s Web of Words
I was so scared that….
Theme
Idea

23. BEW’s Web of Words Fill one box with your phrase
Find a person with the same hair color as you and share your phrase.
Listen and copy their phrase into your web.

24. BEW’s Web of Words
How can an activity like the Web of Words make Content more comprehensible to all the proficiency levels?

25. I was so scared that…
Basic students may need a picture to identify the word scared.

26. Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks
Spoken and Written
Step by Step
Modeled/ Demonstrated
Finished Product as a sample
Directions
Written
Spoken
Model
Step by Step
Check for Understanding
Finished Product
Assess
Apply

27. Techniques for Achieving Comprehensible Input
Use expression and body language
Slower rate (thinking time)
Pauses between phrases
Shorter sentences with simpler syntax
Stress high-frequency vocabulary
Repeat/Review Vocabulary
Repeat/Restate for understanding
Be friendly and enthusiastic
Supportive affect
Different perspectives

28. Deb Painter’s Class
Identify ways that Deb uses some of these techniques in her classroom to reinforce the content.
Write down examples under the appropriate technique

29. Deb Painter’s Class
Brainstorm with a partner how YOU incorporate some of these into your lessons and create a list.

30. Tickets Out Did we meet our objectives?
One new thing that I learned or relearned was…
Something I didn’t understand….
Something I would like to learn more about next time….