Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners: The SIOP Model
“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 buildings that 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 “This book is very readable and clear...The author[s] have an excellent grasp of what classroom teachers need…[the book] gave me great insight to helping students with diverse backgrounds…It was great to see one lesson beging taught in a variety of ways (three) and then having the discussion of why one teacher got a better score on the rubric then the other. I think this would help me tremendously on how to use the [SIOP Model] in the classroom.” —Jodi Grubb, second grade teacher, Pittsfield Elementary School, Pittsfield, NH “This is an excellent resource and explained by the experts on SIOP. There is so much research and knowledge in this text. It would give teachers so much background on English language learners and how to teach these and all students. Good instruction is good instruction and it is explained well in this text.” —Carla R. Chavez, Prairie Park Elementary School, Lawrence, KS “The [book] has so much great research and information about working with ELL students…it would be a valuable resource to all teachers, no matter the student population. Often Title one schools have students with low vobaulary that are native speakers, but the strategies [in this book] would be great for these students also.” —Carla R. Chavez, Prairie Park Elementary School, Lawrence, KS