Based on the widely used resource, Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP^® Model, which includes all grade levels, this book is tailored to the specific needs of elementary school students, and their teachers, as teachers implement high-quality sheltered lesson planning, delivery, and assessment.

Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners presents teachers with specific lesson plans, strategies, and instructional activities for implementing the SIOP^® Model in their own classrooms. 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 of the eight components of the research-based SIOP^® Model and offers specific guidance on how to implement the component in elementary classrooms.

Take a Glimpse Inside:

• Incorporates the most up-to-date research published in 2008 and 2009.
• Features new vignettes of three elementary teachers’ lessons on the same curriculum topic in each of the component chapters. Readers analyze elementary school lesson descriptions and use the SIOP^® protocol to rate the degree to which the SIOP^® components and features are implemented in each of the lessons.
• Provides many “use-tomorrow” instructional ideas and techniques that are especially effective for teaching elementary school students, including English learners.
• Focuses special attention on meeting the needs of struggling readers.
• Includes suggestions for writing content and language objectives.
• Addresses Response to Intervention (RtI) with recommendations for modifying the SIOP^® Model program design, and implementation for students with special needs.
• Includes a CD-ROM with video vignettes of elementary school instruction that exemplifies each of the eight SIOP^® components, as well as brief video clips of the authors speaking about different aspects of the SIOP^® Model.