SIOP Component 4: Strategies

Component Review

1. Lesson Preparation

2. Building Background

3. Comprehensible Input

4. Strategies

5. Interaction

6. Practice / Application

7. Lesson Delivery

8. Review / Assessment

Passing Notes Strategy

• On a clean sheet of paper, answer the following questions:

– Have the SIOP strategies you have implemented made teaching more fun, more rewarding?

– If so, how? – If not, why not?

Passing Notes Strategy

1. Exchange papers with a partner.

2. Write a one or two sentence response to his/her paper.

3. Return the paper to the owner.

4. Complete cycle one more time.

5. Write a one sentence summary of all information written between you and your partner.

Content Objectives:

• Select learning strategies appropriate to lesson objectives

• Recognize value of scaffolding instruction and identify techniques to scaffold

Language Objectives:• Identify learning strategies to use with

students• Recall and share details about this

lesson with the large group

SIOP Features: Component 4

• F13 - Ample opportunities to use Learning strategies:

• F14 - Scaffolding techniques

• F15 - Variety of Questions to promote higher-order thinking – HOT Questions

F13 - Ample opportunities to use learning strategies

• The purpose of the SIOP Strategies component is to examine our strategy instruction, not just the strategies that we employ.

• The purpose of strategy instruction is to help students to access memory, make connections, solve problems, and monitor their own learning.

Learning Strategies

Cognitive:• Rereading• Highlighting• Reading Aloud• Taking notes• Mapping

information• Finding key

vocabulary• Mnemonics

Metacognitive:• Predicting /

Inferring• Self-questioning• Monitoring /

clarifying• Evaluating• Summarizing• Visualizing

SQP2RS – “Squeepers”

1. As a group, fill in the “Before Reading” sections of the SQP2RS graphic organizer.

2. Skim/read the article – highlight key points

3. As a group, respond and write a brief summary of what you read.

F14 - Scaffolding techniques

1. Whole class

2. Small group

3. Pairs

4. Individual

Scaffolding Models

Increasing Independence

Teach Model Practice Apply

Whole Class

Small Group

Partners Independent Work

Teacher Centered

Teacher Assisted

Peer Assisted

Student Centered

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Synthesis

Evaluation

Conversational Proficiency

Academic Proficiency

Dr. J. Cummins

F15 - Variety of Questions to promote higher-order thinking

F15 - Variety of Questions to promote higher-order thinking

• 80% of questions teachers ask are at the literal or knowledge level

• Higher level questions require learners to elaborate and help improve their ability to speak and use the vocabulary they’ve learned

Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Evaluation: Determining value and providing a rationale for the response. Must go beyond the individual’s opinion

• Synthesis: Creating something new from the “parts”

• Analysis: Breaking the concept into component parts and examining/explaining the parts.

• Application: Demonstrating knowledge by applying concepts to one’s own life

• Comprehension: Basic understanding of concept (e.g., providing definitions)

• Knowledge: Simple recitation of information

“Traveling Through the Dark”

Traveling through the dark I found a deerdead on the edge of the Wilson River road.It is usually best to roll them into the canyon:that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead.

By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the carand stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing;she had stiffened already, almost cold.I dragged her off; she was large in the belly.

My fingers touching her side brought me the reason-her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting,alive, still, never to be born.Beside that mountain road I hesitated.

The car aimed ahead its lowered parking lights;under the hood purred the steady engine.I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red;around our group I could hear the wilderness listen.I thought hard for us all--my only swerving--then pushed her over the edge into the river.

by William Stafford

Bloom’s Questions

• Knowledge: Who is the author of the poem? • Comprehension: Summarize the events in the

poem.• Application: Write a list of interview questions

you would ask if you had the opportunity to talk to the narrator.

• Analysis: Select a word or phrase from each stanza of the poem. How do these words / phrases contribute to the story told by the poet?

• Synthesis: Imagine that you had been the person who found the dead deer. Write a new stanza for the poem, telling what you would have done.

• Evaluation: Did the narrator make the right choice? Why or why not?

Question-Answer Relationships

• Right There: What does the author find on the road?

• Think & Search: The narrator refers to “our group” in stanza 4. To whom is he referring?

• Author & Me: Do you think the narrator made a wise decision?

• On My Own: What would you have done if faced with the same decision the narrator in the poem had to make?

Writing HOT Questions

Bloom’s Taxonomy• Evaluation• Synthesis• Analysis• Application• Comprehension• Knowledge

QAR• Right There• Think &

Search• Author & Me• On My Own

Select a topic. Write six questions or tasks related to the topic, one at each level of the taxonomy OR four questions, one for each QAR Type.

Whip Around Strategy

• On your “Whip Around” handout, record five things that you learned about Component 4: Strategies. Please work by yourself.

• After recording your ideas, please stand.

• Each person should state one thing from his/her list. If you hear something from your list, cross it off.

• When all your ideas have been crossed off, please sit down.

Content Objectives:

• Select learning strategies appropriate to lesson objectives

• Recognize value of scaffolding instruction and identify techniques to scaffold

Language Objectives:• Identify learning strategies to use with

students• Recall and share details about this

lesson with the large group

Teaching Challenge

• Teach students thinking strategies to facilitate their learning of your subject

• Scaffold learning so that all learners can be more successful

• Increase higher-order thinking questions (Blooms, QAR)