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

Ready-to-use ideas and activities to make SIOP work in your classroom. The SIOP(R) model is proven to be one of the most effective methods of teaching our English learners. Now teaching with SIOP is even easier with the second volume of Vogt, Echevarria, and Washam's 99 MORE Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP (R) Model. Offering brand new, classroom-ready activities, this indispensable resource revisits SIOP(R) and shows how to use it each day in the classroom. Whether searching for activities that build vocabulary, keep students highly engaged, or make content concepts clear, these teacher-tested strategies adhere to SIOP(R) principles and reinforce best practice. Chapters are organized around SIOP(R)'s eight components and thirty features, so teachers learn not only what activities to try, but also why they work. With its dual focus on implementation and understanding, this must-have resource helps you create a classroom where students progress both academically and in their English language proficiency. Provides 99 ready-to-use ideas for implementing the SIOP(R) model into your classroom. Contains all new, never-before-published SIOP(R) strategies to keep your course current and unique. Explains the SIOP(R) teaching model (8 components and 30 features) before presenting classroom ideas so you understand the why behind the what. Promotes student-to-student and teacher-to-student interactions and involvement with each exercise. Includes step-by-step directions and examples of content and language objectives for each idea and activity. Includes six sample SIOP(R) lesson plans (Chapter 10) to reinforce how to teach English learners with this proven methodology. Offers classroom photographs and examples of student work to show ideas in action. Features a quick-find index and TOC so classroom ideas are easy to try.