SIOP® 8 Components and 30 features
Adapted from Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners, The SIOP Model
by Jana Echevarria, Mary Ellen Vogt and Deborah J. Short.
The Eight Components of Sheltered Instruction:
The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) was developed to make
content material more comprehensible to English Language Learners. The model
was developed by Jana Echevarria, Mary Ellen Vogt and Deborah J. Short.
The SIOP Model includes the following eight components:
1. Lesson Preparation 5. Interaction
2. Building Background 6. Practice and Application
3. Comprehensible Input 7. Lesson Delivery
4. Strategies 8. Review and Assessment
1. Lesson Preparation:
Planning must produce lessons that enable students to make connections
between their own knowledge and experiences and the new information being
taught. Well-planned lessons include content area objectives as well as language
objectives. Concepts must be appropriate for the age and educational level of the
student. The teacher and students should use supplementary materials such as
charts, graphs, pictures, illustrations, multimedia and manipulatives, as well as
demonstrations. Graphic organizers, such as outlines and labeling, should also
be used, in addition to study guides, marginal notes, adapted text, and
highlighted text.
Content Objectives and Language Objectives
Clearly define content and language objectives —
Write on the board- use friendly written language
State orally
Content objectives describe what the students will learn during the lesson.
Language objectives describe how the students will learn the content of the
lesson. They are based on your students needs. They demonstrate how the
students are going to learn the content. They determine which of the 4 domains
of language (listening, speaking, reading, writing) students will use to accomplish
the objectives.
(Explained more thoroughly in 7—Lesson Delivery)