99 Ideas And Activities For Teaching English Learners With The Siop Model

This text is an ideal companion to "Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model." The 99 ideas and activities include a few familiar techniques that have been shown to be especially effective for ELLs, as well as many new ideas to SIOP teachers.

Ready-to-use ideas and activities to make SIOP work in your classroom. The SIOP(R) model is proven to be one of the most effective methods of teaching our English learners. Now teaching with SIOP is even easier with the second volume of Vogt, Echevarria, and Washam's 99 MORE Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP(R) Model. Offering brand new, classroom-ready activities, this indispensable resource revisits SIOP(R) and shows how to use it each day in the classroom. Whether searching for activities that build vocabulary, keep students highly engaged, or make content concepts clear, these teacher-tested strategies adhere to SIOP(R) principles and reinforce best practice. Chapters are organized around SIOP(R)'s eight components and thirty features, so teachers learn not only what activities to try, but also why they work. With its dual focus on implementation and understanding, this must-have resource helps you create a classroom where students progress both academically and in their English language proficiency. Provides 99 ready-to-use ideas for implementing the SIOP(R) model into your classroom. Contains all new, never-before-published SIOP(R) strategies to keep your course current and unique. Explains the SIOP(R) teaching model (8 components and 30 features) before presenting classroom ideas so you understand the why behind the what. Promotes student-to-student and teacher-to-student interactions and involvement with each exercise. Includes step-by-step directions and examples of content and language objectives for each idea and activity. Includes six sample SIOP(R) lesson plans (Chapter 10) to reinforce how to teach English learners with this proven methodology. Offers classroom photographs and examples of student work to show ideas in action. Features a quick-find index and TOC so classroom ideas are easy to try.

Enhance your English-language arts content instruction with the SIOP Model and transform your English learners into readers, writers and speakers of English. Based on the best-selling resource, Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model by acclaimed authors Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short, reading and English teacher's literacy coaches, intervention teachers, and reading specialists have access to research-based, SIOP-tested techniques for lessons specifically for the English-language arts (ELA) classroom. This highly anticipated book, The SIOP Model for Teaching English-Language Arts to English Learners addresses the issues faced in educating English learners (ELs) in ELA at each grade-level. SIOP techniques and activities organized around the eight SIOP components guide educators in promoting academic language development along with comprehensible content. Written for SIOP teachers and those who have learned the SIOP Model, this book includes proven, effective English-language arts lessons and comprehensive units designed by SIOP language arts educators Karlin LaPorta and Lisa Mitchener. In addition, this book provides ideas to adapt the techniques for students at different levels of English proficiency. This invaluable resource is sure to become an indispensable resource for ELA educators of English learners. Presents a systematic process for teaching both the ELA academic content and ELA academic language to English learners. Offers ideas and activities about teaching ELA and organizes activities by grade-bands--K-2, 3-5 (or 6), 6-8, and 9-12 and SIOP components. Provides use-tomorrow ideas and activities for implementing the eight components of the SIOP Model in an ELA classroom. Includes lesson plans and comprehensive units that illustrate how a particular activity can be effective for ALL students, not just English learners. Create the ideal SIOP classroom with other resourcesfrom the SIOP Model Series: 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model; Implementing the SIOP Model through Effective Coaching and Professional Development; The SIOP Model for Administrators; Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners; Making Content Comprehensible for Secondary English Learners; The SIOP Model for Teaching Math to English Learners; The SIOP Model for Teaching Social Studies to English Learners; and The SIOP Model for Teaching Science to English Learners (all published by Pearson)

Like no other text on the market, Making Content Comprehensiblepresents anempirically validated modelof sheltered instruction.This resource includes new research, findings, and studies onthe Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which provides school administrators, teachers, teacher candidates, and field experience supervisors with a tool for observing and quantifying a teacher's implementation of quality sheltered instruction. Making Content Comprehensible for English Learnerspresents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high quality sheltered lessons that teaches content material to English learners. Each of the 30 items from the SIOP model are illustrated through vignettes with 'best' lessons included in the appendices for teachers and also includes 'use tomorrow activities' to take into the classroom. The authors also address implementation issues and provide suggestions for success as well as how to incorporate technology intothe SIOP. In addition, a ground-breaking CD-ROM with video clips, interviews ofthe authors, and reproducibles (e.g., lesson plan formats), etc. make this the perfect professional development resource for any grade level or content area teacher!"

Based on the SIOP model (Sheltered Intervention Observation Protocol), this book presents techniques of teaching science to learners of English and includes sample learning activities and lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade.

Enhance your Mathematics content instruction with the SIOP Model and transform the academic English and mathematics skills of your English learners. Based on the best-selling resource, Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model by acclaimed authors Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short; teachers, coaches, and intervention teachers have access to research-based, SIOP-tested techniques for lessons specifically for the mathematics classroom. This highly anticipated book, The SIOP Model for Teaching Mathematics to English Learners addresses the issues faced in teaching math to English learners (ELs) at each grade-level. SIOP techniques and activities organized around the eight SIOP components guide educators in promoting academic language development along with comprehensible mathematics content. Written for SIOP teachers and those who have learned the SIOP Model, this book includes proven, effective math lessons and comprehensive units designed by SIOP math educators Araceli Avila and Melissa Castillo. In addition, this book provides ideas to adapt the techniques for students at different levels of English proficiency. This book is sure to become an indispensable resource for math educators of English learners. Presents a systematic process for teaching both the academic content of mathematics and its associated academic language to English learners. Offers ideas and activities about teaching mathematics and organizes activities by grade-bands--K-2, 3-5 (or 6), 6-8, and 9-12 and SIOP components. Provides use-tomorrow ideas and activities for implementing the eight components of the SIOP Model in a mathematics classroom. Includes lesson plans and comprehensive units that illustrate how a particular activity can be effective for ALL students, not just English learners. Create the ideal SIOP classroom with other resourcesfrom the SIOP Model Series: 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model; Implementing the SIOP Model through Effective Coaching and Professional Development; The SIOP Model for Administrators; Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners; and Making Content Comprehensible for Secondary English Learners ; The SIOP Model for Teaching Math to English Learners; The SIOP Model for Teaching Social Studies to English Learners; and The SIOP Model for Teaching Science to English Learners (all published by Pearson)