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

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One of the most influential books in the field in years! Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP?® Model 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. For twelve years, educators have turned to Jana Echevarr?­a, 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 findingsand studies onthe Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP?®) 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. Ringing Endorsements ???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!??? ??”Socorro Herrera, Kansas State University ???Readability, organization, and practicality! The SIOP addresses precisely the needs that my beginning teachers facethe CD for SIOPmakes it all understandable. I love the book!??? ??”Danny Brassell, California State University, Dominguez Hills Take a Glimpse Inside the Third Edition: New, user-friendly format of the SIOP?® protocol. Background Sections include descriptions of the eight components and thirty features of the SIOP?® Model, and are updated to reflect recent research and best practices to help readers plan and prepare effective sheltered lessons. Practical Guidelines to help readers develop effective language and content objectives. Discussion Questions 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. A groundbreaking CD-ROM with video clips, interviews ofthe authors, and reproducible resources (e.g., lesson plan formats), make this the perfect professional development asset for any grade level or content area teacher!Written by authorities in the subject, Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition) by Jana J. Echevarria, MaryEllen J. Vogt, and Deborah J. Short provides an excellent foundation for your studies. Jana J. Echevarria, MaryEllen J. Vogt, and Deborah J. Short??™s style is excellently suited towards the topic, and will teach students the material clearly without overcomplicating the subject. What??™s more, the text is available in the Paperback format shown above (ISBN 9780205518869), as well as a number of other formats. As of May 2007, this revision raises the bar for Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition)??™s high standard of excellence, making sure that it stays one of the foremost textbooks on the subject.