Blog #8

Reflect on what the teacher did to promote comprehension. Teacher do? Students do? Reflect on readings. List essential components.
     In this video, I saw all of the aspects of a SIOP lesson plan. The teacher set up the behavior expectations with rules that were posted, stated out loud and shared kinesthetically with the class. To scaffold learning, she used realia with the spoon and manipulatives when applicable. She also, did motions when she talked to help develop vocabulary acquisition.She allowed for students to use their background knowledge of their native culture and their neighborhood connections to help them collaborate on their learning.  She pushed students to answer with higher level resoning. She tapped into high interest topics and encouraged the playing of games where they could apply their learning.
    Throughout the lesson, students were seen in various group settings: whole class, individual, and collaborative groups. The students had jobs and were aware of their responsibilities in the classroom and with their learning. They kinesthetically engaged by lifting their hands, standing up, and repeating rules and information. They knew that it was beneficial to follow along with the text while listening to the reading. They were taking two column notes.
   There was nonlinguistic representation in the realia objects, the student use of two column notes was a graphic organizer appropriate for their task, and verbally she did the topic-restriction-illustration frame when discussing with the students the names of their streets, and how they come from Span to Mexico to California.