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SIOP Lessons and Resources

  • Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
  • On 28 November, 2015
  • 82 Comments

Whether a new literacy resource, a differentiated resource, a resource for inclusive classrooms, or one focused specifically on cross-cultural communication, let’s share a resource that supports SIOP, along with your own lesson design (optional), and talk about it in this blog.

  1. First, tell us why you chose the resource.
  2. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it.
  3. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with ELLs.

82 Comments

Kristin
I found this resource: ELL Tool Box (http://www.elltoolbox.com/siop.html#.Vl58dn6rTIU). I've never heard of SIOP so this was a good place to get more information about it. It includes summaries, checklists, and guides, which is nice to have when you have no experience with it. By using this information, I can begin to incorporate components of SIOP into my lesson plans and classroom.
Mary Campbell
http://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/ I've never heard of SIOP either. It sounds like really good teaching to me, although very time consuming. The video clip (although insanely long) was really informative about the steps in the process. I did several searches after the video and found a huge number of returns on SIOP. The resource listed above covered many grade levels and was really informative and helpful. I would like to implement several of the SIOP components in my classroom.
Jennifer Camacho
I often use CGI or Cognitive Guided Instruction methods for math questioning in my classroom. I use this strategy because students are able to get an idea of the problem on their own, discuss the problem with fellow students, present proof and arguments to support their answers, and present their work. This activity incorporates all of the 8 elements of the SIOP model. I read the book "Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction" during a class for my masters program. Here is the link for the book. http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Mathematics-Cognitively-Guided-Instruction/dp/0325001375/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1453938437&sr=8-2&keywords=CGI+math This book was an easy read that I was able to take directly to the classroom and use during a lesson. After reading the book, I was able to come up with word problems that were appropriate for students, yet challenging enough for them to gain knowledge and problem solving skills. Here are some more links to support the use of CGI in the classroom http://hbcsd.org/view/11425.pdf http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?programid=114 This resource relates to the SIOP model because I am able to introduce a problem (or several problems) and question students on what they know about what they problem is stating as well as what clues they see that will help them solve the problem. I pre plan the groups I am going to place students into during this activity (I always have my students solve these questions in groups) as well as what level question I will give to each group. I assign the problem, give students 5 to 10 minutes to attempt to solve the problem individually. Then, they get with their groups, read the problem again and discuss what is actually occurring in the problem as if it were a mini story. They also discuss the operation they choose to solve the problem and the answers they arrived at. They determine if they all arrived at the same answer or not. If not, they discuss the problem in depth and provide proof and reasons to support their answers. They must agree on an answer. If they cannot, I will step in and have a discussion with them to guide their thinking. If they did all agree, then they discuss the strategies they used to arrive at an answer. Through this activity, there is a lot of interaction. Students then re-write the question at the top of chart paper. Copy on the chart paper any methods that were used to arrive at a correct answer in the middle. At the bottom of the chart they write the mathematical answer in a complete sentence. Finally, they present their problem to the classroom and the different methods group members used to solve it. Students are allowed to ask the groups questions if they choose to. They are also supposed to evaluate the groups and decide if the group solved the problem appropriately and then correctly. This is a great activity for all students, including ELL's because it does incorporate all 8 of the SIOP model for instruction if planned correctly.
Kristina
Brainpopjr.com --- wonderful online tool that is easily used with any audience. ELL students have the opportunity to enjoy the antics of the characters and content just as much as general audience students.
Kristy Marvin
http://www.starfall.com/ is a resource that can be used in the classroom to support ELLs in both math and reading. This resource uses a combination of poems, stories, songs, pictures, and print to teach concepts in an engaging way to students.
    Meredith
    Some of my students have used Starfall and really enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing!
David Nickisch
I found http://www.cal.org/siop/resources/ to be a helpful resource because it has some quality lesson plans and activities for SIOP. It contains effective practices for increasing the achievement of ELLs as well as a professional development framework for a comprehensive school-wide intervention. Here, one can learn about SIOP and learn how to implement it effectively.
Melanie Counts
The best resource I could find on SIOP is Mrs. Hilliker's EL and Siop Toolbox. She provides SIOP template lesson plans, reading, and assessment sources. Additionally, she offers many EL resources. This is a great site! http://ellandsiopresources.weebly.com/
Sammantha
www.getepic.com is a great literacy resource to use with students of all grade levels. This resource features a very large selection of books that can be read on the computer or projected onto the smartboard. These books are labeled by age range and reading time. When projected, the books show pictures and many non-fiction text features.Some lower level books will also read to students. I chose this resource because I think it is a great way to provide additional knowledge on subject, build vocabulary for ELL's, Introduce a new topic, and can be a great way to integrate literacy across all subject areas.
Leslie Owens
http://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/ This website has a multitude of lesson plans which align with the SIOP model including language objectives, vocabulary instruction, building background knowledge and student interaction.
John Berelsman
After looking through a few websites I found this link: http://www.elltoolbox.com/siop.html#.Vw6n2zEep-Q which provides a good summary for SIOP as well as multiple examples and ways to implement sheltered instruction effectively.
Monica
Brainpop.com —easily used with any audience and a wonderful online tool. ELL students enjoy the characters and content just as much as general audience students.
Meredith
Brainpopjr.com has lots of fun videos, games, activities, quizzes, and more that can help students easily learn about a new topic. There's even a Spanish site (and other languages) to help students as well.
ANDRIA BARRERA
https://www.readinga-z.com/ is a great resource for ell students. This website has many wonderful tools and books for ell students. It is a wonderful site that offers different books at different levels.
sawall
I love using a youtube channel called geraldine the giraffe. It is a british giraffe puppet that really disects the phonics skills learned throughout the year and goes along great with the curriculum. The kids get such a kick out of it! the giraffe is humorous and goes throughout the house to search for items that feature the phonics skill for that video (ou, ing, short e , etc). the objects are shown and the word is displayed. The sound is said multiple times. I love the audio and visuals that correlate with this! its a great review or intro!
Rosanna
I found a website with many resources for teachers, parents and students. It offers sites with literacy games for k-12. The website is called: readwritethink.org
Linda Patrice Ayala
My students use Starfall.com, ABC Mouse, and PBS Kids, and everyone really enjoys each website. We also use Brainzy on education.com, as well.
Margery Bristow
I found a template when creating your own SIOP lessons at: http://www.k12northstar.org/cms/lib010/AK01901510/Centricity/Domain/1133/SIOP-WIDA/sioplessonplantemplates1-4.pdf The format is easy to read, and the check boxes make sure you address all 8 steps of SIOP. There are 4 versions of the template, fit for any organizational style.
Shannon Wolkiewicz
http://eldstrategies.com/siopbooks.html This website offers different SIOP books for teachers of various content areas. It also explains the SIOP model and helpful links to ELL resources for kids.
Chris Hall
http://www.cal.org/siop/resources/ It is a good resource for linguistic concerns, lesson plans, etc...
Marilyn Smith
I chose: https://esl.brainpop.com/ This website is amazing. It is specifically for helping to teach English to students who are learning it as a second language. You take a placement test and then you have many videos and interactive games to help you learn English.
Chris Hall
It highlights current topics of interest covering a variety of subjects related to language learning, cultural orientation, and linguistics.
Jerome Hudnell
www.cal.org/siop/about/ I like this site because it describes the components of the SIOP idea in a way I can best understand them. Also, it is an easy reference for those components whenever I quickly need a reminder.
Valerie Baker
www.cal.org/siop/resources I like that there are a variety of free lesson plans and activities that can be downloaded. There is also a template for lesson planning.
Valerie Baker
I chose Brainpopjr.com. It's an excellent resource for teaching a new topic. The students are fully engaged with games, activities, and leveled quizzes. There is also a Brainpop Espanol site.
Michael
Of all the sites visited, I return back to youtube.com, because it clearly lets me stop at anytime, go over objectives, take a moment to check for background knowledge, lets me stop and model to students what they are seeing, ask them to act out and model as we go.I can stop completely for a moment and scaffold language to fit the explanation that was going on. We can stop and ask questions as we go to make sure we are meeting the objective.I get to engage everyone, because they are waiting for the screen to come back up and resume. I can check understanding at different points through the clip. I don't have to wait and then go back to see if we remember. This site, no matter what you are looking for, although it takes a bit of preparation, can allow you to accomplish a SIOP lesson easily.
Travis Thomas
http://www.cal.org/siop/resources/ was an excellent site to help with lesson plans and activities for Ell students. It also offered extra professional development opportunities.
Cherrie
First, I would recommend the resource: http://www.4mationweb.com/4mationweb/home.php This website I have used with the parochial school system in designing lessons. It will assist you in designing whole brain lessons where students connect to what is going to be taught, then watch the teacher explain, then do, then extend and celebrate. Next I would recommend the site: http://www.speechlanguage-resources.com/sentence-builder-program.html This site assists in building grammar, sentences in a step by step process. This could be done with individual students, small group or even whole group. An early post recommended readingA-Z. I have used that source multiple years. And I highly recommend it for lower elementary students and possibly early middle grade students who are just entering the country. It offers testing, and making books. While many teachers posted about brain pop, utube, etc. the teacher or a resource person can download books, discuss the books at school and then send home the books with the kids and the kids can keep the books. It gives lesson plans, vocabulary words, etc. It offers Spanish, and English so there can be connections with what the child already knows.
Todd
http://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/ I found resources at CAL ISOP Lesson Plans and Activities I chose the lesson for Kindergarten Basic Things This is a well written lesson that could be used wonderfully with all students. Plenty of colorful pictures and a power point that can be used to express what is being taught.
Anne Turner
As many others have posted, I had never heard of this model either. I did some google searching and actually found several good resources. I especially liked http://ellandsiopresources.weebly.com/ It is site put together by two ESL teachers in Grand Rapids, Michigan for their district teachers to use as a resource. It has several interesting activities and lesson plans that could be easily adapted for any classroom. It has links to sites as well as PDF resources that correlate to each step in the SIOP model.
Jennifer King
Before this module and watching the video, I had never heard of the SIOP model. When I did a google search to find lesson ideas that use the model, I found this website: http://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/ It offers several lesson plans for many different grade levels, and in many different content areas. I can see how this could be extremely useful, especially in teaching a class that included mostly ELLs or at least a group of them. I think it would be a lot of extra planning if a teacher only had one ELL in her class.
Sarah Stout
http://siopwiki.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/SIOP+for+Elementary I chose this website because it had resources for teachers that have ELL students in their classrooms. It gives example lessons at each grade level using the SIOP strategy. It also gives SIOP lesson plan templates for teachers to use. I find this resource effective for helping ELLs becase it helps teachers prepare lessons that will help students understand.
Ashley
http://www.d11.org/Instruction/Science/Curriculum/9-12/Pages/SIOP-Strategies.aspx explains the SIOP strategies. I have not heard of SIOP before but after researching it I will be trying some of these strategies next year.
Dawn Bacevic
After completing more research on SIOP, I found a resource that contains many ideas for helping ELLs. Mrs. Hurley’s webpage is a great tool for assisting teachers with ESL students. The website is http://www.mrshurleysesl.com/teacherresources/index.html. There are tons of links listed on the webpage that range from lesson plans to virtual field trips.
Colleen Mueller
I found a free lesson plan on Teachers Pay Teachers that covers the story "Uncle Nacho's Hat." In the lesson, students focus on words that convey how they feel. The teacher will read the book "Uncle Nacho's Hat." While reading the story, the teacher will review new vocabulary in the book and following the read aloud, the teacher will hand out a hat-shaped piece of paper on which the students will write, "I feel________today because_________." The teacher will model this on the board. At the end of the lesson, student will share their sentences with the class. This lesson is very helpful because it includes ways to differentiate the lesson for students depending on whether they are beginning, intermediate, or advanced ELLs.
    Colleen Mueller
    The link to this lesson is https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/Uncle-Nachos-Hat-Guided-Reading-Lesson-plan-for-ELLs-1333938
Sydney Thacker
www.abcya.com is a great website full of educational games. like alphabet order! great for prek to fifth grade!
Penny Pruitt
In my ESE classroom the students enjoy starfall, brainpop, brainpop Jr., PBS Kids, abcya.com and ABC Mouse. I use all of these just to name a few because I have 1st through 5th. They are really helpful as extra resources to assist the students.
Ariel
I found this great template for creating an SIOP Lesson Plan: https://www.k12northstar.org/cms/lib010/AK01901510/Centricity/Domain/1133/SIOP-WIDA/sioplessonplantemplates1-4.pdf. I also found a few PDFs that can assist with some SIOP Lesson Plans with Activities: http://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/.
M. Irwin
Vocabulary Grab Bag Make sets of content vocabulary. Place students into groups of 3,assigning each member a job in the group 1. chooser - student chooses a word and reads word 2. expert- can define or explain the word chooser, reader and peer coach 3. peer coach - coaches the rest of team and then adds to the experts thinking In order to scaffold and support ELL students, provide a picture dictionary/bilingual dictionary for those students so that they may understand from their native language.
kayla desimone
The iready toolbox is a great tool to use for differentiation. This resource gives lessons for students at various academic levels, as well as remediation tools. This resource would be beneficial to ELLs because it allows for reteaching and builds academic language. It is a great resource for teachers to use as it provides lesson plans and resources at the click of a button. Here is the link: https://www.teacher-toolbox.com
Nicole Swanson
The SIOP resource I chose was Colorin colorado. This is a great resource (http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/connect-students-background-knowledge-content-ell-classroom) because there are a variety of resources for teachers, families and for videos to use inside the classroom. When you teach ELL students you need a variety of tools in order to help students to understand the lesson at hand. Also, having resources for families will help parents be involved in the learning process.
Sharon Curtis
The resource that I choice was brainpop. Our school has a subscription to brainpop, but until I read the blogs here I didn't realize they had a section for ELL. It is found at https://ell.brainpop.com/level1/. It is entertaining, engaging, and very motivating. It has videos, flash cards, and quizzes. It is very accommodating to different levels.
Katie
I like to use the resource abcya.com for my students during their computer free time. It has games and activities for grades pre-k- 5th grade. I can choose a particular game and grade level that the individual student to help practice a skill that we are working on in class. All my students, even ELLs, are engaged when using this resource. I also like using starfall because it helps to build the foundation of reading skills for both ELLs and my other students.
Suzanne Wyatt
I justs started using CommonLit in my classroom. The resource contains leveled reading stories and shorter passages that allow me to differentiate my lessons. Each resource has question sets that go with the text. https://www.commonlit.org/ This resource is an online resource which allows me to assign a different/various level texts to students. ELL students wouldn't know that their text is at a different level than their classmates' text. The text is assigned through Google Classroom which allows for the assignment to be completed at home if needed.
Mary
I use BrainpopJr.com The videos have slow, clear speakers, the characters "show" what the topic is about and asks questions for the kids to answer.
Teresa
I use readingA-Z because it has alot of books that I can print out in different languages. Since I teach social studies , it is a great reseource for books to give a student more background knowledge about the subjects that I teach about.
Heather Rogers
I found the website: http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/seven_teaching_strategies_clas_06140.php I chose this website because I felt like it would be helpful information for someone that is new to having ELL in their classrooms. I wish I would've known some of the thinking behind ELL students BEFORE I had them in my classroom. The strategies for ELL students can also help your low achieving students, so it's just beneficial to have the information resources.
Matthew Teague
In the past I have used Brainpop and Brainpop Jr. Both have several resources that are available to you, the teacher. Also, my students enjoyed the short videos associated with each lesson. It also provides "quizzes" for the students to test understanding.
Elizabeth Ross
Brain Pop is the site that I use for teaching ELL students, https://www.brainpop.com/english/seeall/ This site not only has reading activities but it also covers many different subjects. The site has the student watch a video of the material, has reading or games associated with the content that was on the video, and finally it offers a quiz to make sure that the student understood the content for that subject.
Nancy
I use many websites that are pre-k suitable. The one I use daily is Starfall. It covers so many subjects for my students and it is interactive. It has short stories, daily calendar, numbers, letters songs, games, identifying, matching and it is colorful and engaging.
Jill
I found this great website full of wonderful resources: https://ellsd68.weebly.com/siop.html It includes mini lessons for teachers, helpful links for parents and teachers. It has apps for ELL students and starter phrases for those who may need help in English or another language. A starter point for those who need assistance with SIOP like me! I have used many other learning resources like Brainpop Jr., ABC Mouse, Reading Rockets, PBS Kids, etc. This website gives me ideas on implementing SIOP directly into my lesson plan and even gives me examples of lessons. Yay!
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