Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition)

Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition)

<DIV sercontent> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>One of the most influential books in the field in years!</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I>Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP<SUP>®</SUP> Model </I> </B> <B>presents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high quality sheltered lesson that teaches content material to English language learners. </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">For twelve years, educators have turned to Jana Echevarría, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short for an empirically validated model of sheltered instruction. In the Third Edition of this best-seller, the authors include new research findings and studies on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP<SUP>®</SUP>) Model, which offers school administrators, teachers, teacher candidates, coaches, university faculty, and field experience supervisors a tool for observing and quantifying a teacher's implementation of quality sheltered instruction. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Ringing Endorsements </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> </B>“A framework that will engage, support, and increase the academic achievement of our culturally and linguistically diverse students. The [SIOP Model went] from good to great!”</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=right text-align="right"> <I>—Socorro Herrera, Kansas State University</I> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“Readability, organization, and practicality! The SIOP addresses precisely the needs that my beginning teachers face…the CD for SIOP…makes it all understandable. I love the book!”</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=right text-align="right"> <I>—Danny Brassell, California State University, Dominguez Hills</I> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Take a Glimpse Inside the Third Edition:</B> </P> <UL> <LI>New, <B>user-friendly format of the SIOP<SUP>®</SUP> protocol</B>. <LI> <B>Background Sections</B> include descriptions of the eight components and thirty features of the SIOP<SUP>®</SUP> Model, and are updated to reflect recent research and best practices to help readers plan and prepare effective sheltered lessons. <LI> <B>Practical Guidelines</B> to help readers develop effective language and content objectives. <LI> <B>Discussion Questions</B> have been rewritten and are appropriate for portfolio development in pre-service and graduate classes, for professional development workshops, or for teacher reflection and application. <LI>A<B> groundbreaking CD-ROM</B> with video clips, interviews of the authors, and reproducible resources (e.g., lesson plan formats), make this the perfect professional development asset for any grade level or content area teacher!</LI> </UL> </DIV>