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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.

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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.

Ringing Endorsements

As a classroom teacher with English learners, this book would be a savior in assisting me with my teaching.

Jodi Grubb, Pittsfield Elementary School, Pittsfield, NH

This is a fabulous resource for elementary teachers who have English language learners of all proficiency levels in their classrooms. [The book] is especially helpful for those [teachers] who do not have much ELL support and not enough minutes in the day. The SIOP^® model allows you to work with your ELLs while still teaching content/grade level material It is obvious that the authors know what teachers need and give both the strategies that teachers are longing for while also providing them with the research-based knowledge to help [teachers] understand Excellent!

Lisa J. DeMaagd, ELL teacher, Taft Elementary, Wyoming, MI

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.