SIOP ® Lesson Plan Template 1

Teacher: Pete Brewis Date: 10 April 2019 Grade/Class/Subject: Grade 6 Individuals and
Societies

Unit/Theme: Ancient Greece/Conflict Standards:

Criterion C: Communicating

i. communicate information and ideas with clarity

ii. organize information and ideas effectively for the task

iii. list sources of information in a way that follows the task

instructions.

Criterion D: Thinking Critically

i. identify the main points of ideas, events, visual

representation or arguments

ii. use information to justify an opinion

iii. identify and analyse a range of sources/data in terms of

origin and purpose

iv. identify different views and their implications.

Content Objective(s): Language Objective(s):

Students will be able to: Students will be able to:

● Recognize important vocabulary words in context ● utilize words in context

● make connections between vocabulary that they ● make connections between vocabulary that they
know and the new words being introduced know and the new words being introduced
● engage in small group discussion with peers with a
focus on turn taking

KEY VOCABULARY: SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS:

Citizen
Citizenship pen
Government paper
Entitled Devices
Reformer
Assembly
Election
Democracy
 SIOP FEATURES
PREPARATION SCAFFOLDING GROUP OPTIONS
☐ Adaptation of content ☐ Modeling X☐ Whole class
X☐ Links to background X☐ Guided practice X☐ Small groups
X☐ Links to past learning ☐ Independent practice ☐ Partners
☐ Strategies incorporated X☐ Comprehensible input ☐ Independent
INTEGRATION OF PROCESSES APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
X☐ Reading ☐ Hands-on ☐ Individual
X☐ Writing ☐ Meaningful X☐ Group
X☐ Speaking X☐ Linked to objectives X☐ Written
X☐ Listening X☐ Promotes engagement X☐ Oral

LESSON SEQUENCE:

In this lesson, students were introduced to several important words that they would use throughout the
unit. Students were introduced to the words and then asked to find “formal” definitions for their words in
small groups. To do this they used their computers to look up the definitions of the words. Once they had
come up with those definitions they were asked to then continue working in their small groups to put
together “6th grade” definitions of those words. In the next lesson we used those definitions to play a
vocabulary game in which students thought of words that came to mind when they heard the vocabulary
words, and got a point for each member of their group who had the same word.

REFLECTIONS:

Overall I think that this lesson works well. We only had 8 words but students were able to engage with all eight of the words.
By being able to read the “formal” definitions and then turn those into 6th grade friendly definitions through their discussion,
it allows for the students to make meaningful connections to the words that they will be using regularly over the course of
the next 7 weeks. Lastly, while the game that we played took place in the next lesson, the game allows for students to
continue to engage with the words that they are learning and relate them to other things that they are more familiar with.

Template adapted from Echevarria, Vogt, and Short (2008), Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP ® Model.