Jamie Facine
I am a 2nd/3rd grade teacher at a charter school in Detroit, MI. This is my 5th year of teaching and I am currently working on my Reading Specialist endorsement while getting my Masters at SVSU. I am also a mentor teacher and tutor my students after school. I did my undergrad at Wayne state in ele...
There are 8 components to SIOP including: Preparation, Building Background, Comprehensible Input, Strategies, Interaction, Practice and Application, Lesson Delivery, and Review and Assessment. Some of the strategies given can be used in different components, but all of the components have strategies to use. Some of the strategies are done with the students and some are done ahead of time to help the lesson be more meaningful to ESL students, and they work well for all students. This book is really all about building your teacher bag of tricks to help all students learn!
There are lots of vocabulary activities and one that I am practicing is having the 4 corners of the classroom labeled and a stack of vocabulary words. Students each get a word and they have to figure out which corner their word goes to. This is great for sorting for word endings, different categories for a topic, types of grammar... the list goes on!
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