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What is a SIOP Lesson Plan?

A SIOP lesson plan is a type of lesson plan that is designed to support the academic and language needs of English language learners (ELLs). The acronym SIOP stands for Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, and it refers to a set of instructional strategies and techniques that are used to make content more accessible to ELLs.

The SIOP model is supporting of language learning for ALL students and focuses on vocabulary review and literacy-based instructional strategies.

A SIOP lesson plan typically includes the following components:

1. Pre-lesson preparation: This includes activities such as setting up the classroom, gathering materials, and reviewing the lesson objectives.
   
2. Building background knowledge: This includes activities such as providing background information about the topic, making connections to prior knowledge, and activating prior knowledge.
   
3. Comprehensible input: This includes activities such as providing clear explanations and examples, using visual aids and graphic organizers, and using gestures and body language to support understanding.
   
4. Strategies: This includes activities such as using graphic organizers, making predictions, and asking and answering questions to promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
   
5. Interaction: This includes activities such as pair and group work, think-pair-share, and other techniques to promote interaction and collaboration among students.
   
6. Practice and application: This includes activities such as assigning homework, conducting hands-on activities, and using authentic materials to provide opportunities for students to practice and apply what they have learned.
   
7. Review and assessment: This includes activities such as formative and summative assessments to evaluate student understanding and progress.

Overall, the goal of a SIOP lesson plan is to provide a supportive and inclusive learning environment for ELLs and to help them acquire the language and academic skills they need to succeed in school.

I’ve included two forms of the SIOP lesson planning template below, as both an MS Word format and PDF.

The MS Word version is blow: