Coaching Tip: After a training, choose one thing
to bring back to staff. One strategy, one idea, one
thing that teachers can implement immediately in
their classroom that day. Model it!
Note: This presentation was made after a group
of teachers attended a 3-day SIOP training.
SIOP
Sheltered Instruction Observation
Protocol
Staff Meeting Objectives
• Content Objective: I can create one or two
sentence frames to use in my content
classroom.
• Language Objective: I can write how sentence
frames help students.
Does this look familiar?
• What did you learn today?
“Nothing”
• What did you do well?
“Everything”
• What do you still need to work on?
• Talk to your partner about ______.
“IDK”
Chaos
Student responses focused on content
Do-able; therefore, motivating
Key vocabulary infused
Sentence
Frames
Quick formative assessment
Thinking is explicit
Helps ALL students show what
they learned
Great discussion tool
Scaffolding
Reduces anxiety
What is a sentence frame?
• Using RAVE helps me __________and ___________.
• The tables shows an example of a _______sequence
because______________.
• _______ and ______ are alike because___________.
• I have a question about _________. I already tried
___________, but I still ____________.
What is a sentence frame?
• The topic of this paragraph is __________. I know
this because __________________.
• There was (no) (a little) (a lot) of conflict between
Native Americans and white settlers because______.
• I observed ___________. I can infer ____________
because __________________.
Sentence Frames
What it IS
•A guided student response
•Scaffolding
•Explicit thinking
•Reflective
•Justification
What it is NOT
•A cloze
•Filling in blanks
•Pre-printed for kids
•An incomplete thought
Content Objective: I can create one or two
sentence frames to use in my content
classroom
Examples
Using RAVE helps me __________and ___________.
The tables shows an example of a _______sequence
because______________.
My day with the sub was ________because________.
I have a question about _________. I already tried ___________, but
I still ____________.
Language Objective: I can write how
sentence frames help students.
On a sticky note, please complete one of the following
sentence frames:
Sentence frames help students by________.
Sentence frames help teachers by ________.
SIOP Next Steps…
• Opportunities for all staff to be trained in SIOP
model next year!
• PowerPoint is in T:drive, Shared PowerPoints
• If you create a cool sentence frame, share it
with the SIOP team!