99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model

by Vogt, MaryEllen; Echevarria, Jana

• ISBN13: 9780205521067
• ISBN10: 0205521061
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780135889671
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Pearson
• More Book Details

Summary

This book is an indispensable resource for teachers of English language learners, and it 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.

Author Biography

Deborah J. Short is a professional development consultant and a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC. She co-developed the SIOP® Model for sheltered instruction and has directed national research studies on English language learn-ers funded by the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Dept. of Education. She recently chaired an expert panel on adolescent ELL literacy. As the director of Academic Language Research & Training, Dr. Short provides professional development on sheltered instruction and academic literacy around the U.S. and abroad. She has numerous publications, including the SIOP® book series and five ESL textbook series for National Geographic/Hampton-Brown. She has taught English as a second/foreign language in New York, California, Virginia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

Jana Echevarría is a Professor Emerita at California State University, Long Beach. She has taught in elementary, middle, and high schools in general education, special education, ESL, and bilingual programs. She has lived in Taiwan, Spain and Mexico. An internationally known expert on second language learners, Dr. Echevarría is a Fulbright Specialist. Her research and publications focus on effective instruction for English learners, including those with learning disabilities. Currently, she is Co-Principal Investigator with the Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). In 2005, Dr. Echevarría was selected as Outstanding Professor at CSULB.

 

MaryEllen Vogt, Ed.D., is Professor Emerita of Education at California State University, Long Beach. MaryEllen has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, special education specialist, curriculum coordinator, and university teacher educator. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a co-author of fifteen books, including Reading Specialists and Literacy Coaches in the Real World (3rd ed., 2011) and the SIOP® book series. Her research interests include improving comprehension in the content areas, teacher change and development, and content literacy and language acquisition for English learners. She was inducted into the California Reading Hall of Fame, received her university’s Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and served as President of the International Reading Association in 2004–2005.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Criteria for Selecting the Ideas and Activities About

This Book Purpose of Ideas and Activities Content and Language

Objectives Lesson Plans

Acknowledgements

A Guide to Using This Book

Overview Of The Siop Model

Lesson Preparation

Overview of Preparation Component

Ideas and Activities for Enhancing

Lesson Preparation

Teacher Collaboration using the SIOP Protocol

Differentiated Instruction Enlarged

Adapted Text Alternate

Materials Success through Scaffolding

Task Analysis or Backwards Planning SIOP

Planning Flow Chart Lesson Plan Format

Building Background

Overview of Building Background

Component Ideas and Activities for Building

Background Realia, Photos, and Illustrations

KWL Chart Pretest with a Partner

Backwards Book Walk Go to Your Corner

The Insert Method Student Journals

Personal Dictionaries Signal Words 4 Corners

Vocabulary Identifying and Using Cognates to Teach

English Vocabulary Surprise Book Lesson Plan

Elementary Lesson Plan: Secondary

Comprehensible Input

Overview of Comprehensible Input

Component Ideas and Activities for Providing

Comprehensible Input Identifying Levels of Second Language

Acquisition Move It! Vocabulary

Cards and Flip Books Homographs

Homophones, and Synonyms

Idiom Match-Up Taped Texts for Scaffolding

Every Student Gets a Chance Framed

Outlines Lesson Plan: Elementary Lesson Plan: Secondary

Strateges

Overview of Strategies Component

Ideas and Activities for Developing

Strategies Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA)

SQP2RS (Squeepers) Questioning Prompts for Different levels of Language

Acquisition Canned Questions Question-Answer

Relationships (QAR) Anticipation/Reaction

Guide Progressive Maps T-Chart Graphic Organizer Split

Page Note-taking Stop and Think You Are the Teacher!

Value Line Adapted Venn Diagram

Lesson Plan: Elementary Lesson Plan: Secondary

Interaction

Overview of Interaction Component Ideas and Activities for Promoting

Interaction Is It Complete?

Dinner Party Group Response with a White Board

Reader-Writer-Speaker Response

Triads Inside Outside Circle Find Your Match Jigsaw

What You Know Gallery Walk Take a Stand

Frozen Moment You Are There Great Performances Role

Playing Puppetry Lesson Plan: Elementary

Lesson Plan: Secondary

Practice and Application

Overview of Practice and Application Component

Ideas and Activities for Providing Practice and Application BINGO

Are You Sleeping?

Poetry and Patterns Go Graphic for Expository

Texts Main Idea

Chart Cause and Effect

Chart Compare/Contrast

Chart Sequence or Chronological

Chart Problem - Solution

Chart Description

Chart Plot Chart/Short Story Flow

Chart The Frame-Up Piece O Pizza Virginia

Reel Numbered Heads Together

Vocabulary-Go-Fish Lesson

Plan: Elementary Lesson

Plan: Secondary

Lesson Delivery

SIOP Features of Lesson

Delivery Overview of Lesson

Delivery Component Ideas and Activities for Effective Lesson

Delivery Heading into Questions

Chunk and Chew Magic Buttons

Procedural Knowledge Response

Cards Secret Answer Take Your Corners What Do

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