Making Content Comprehensible for Secondary English Learners: The SIOP Model

by Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, Deborah J. Short

Based on the widely used text, Making Content Comprehensible for English The SIOP Model , which includes all grade levels, this book is geared towards the specific needs of middle/secondary students and teachers.  The book opens with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of issues in the education of English learners. Each chapter that follows discusses one research-based component of the SIOP Model of instruction and give explicit guidance on how to implement the component in middle/secondary classrooms. Each chapter also includes vignettes of 3 teachers implementing the SIOP Model to varying degrees. Readers have the opportunity to analyze the instruction and rate the lessons. The authors provide their own analysis and discussion of each lesson as well. 

Genres: Education, Teaching

288 pages, Paperback

Published April 4, 2009

Reviews

[Emma Herman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very helpful guide to understanding the SIOP model and it had a lot of great resources and activities to use!

[Fran Wilkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good! Now that I've read everything in theory and research, I need to put it into practice.

[Kathleen O'Mara]

Good strategies for working with motivated students. The information includes lesson plans and differentiation.