MaryEllen Vogt

This book contains activities and lessons to use in the classroom with English Language Learners. The SIOP model [Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol] uses lesson preparation, interaction, building background, practice and application, comprehensible input, lesson delivery, strategies, review and assessment as its primary bases. Each target area comes with activities and engagement ideas for classroom application.

There's a lot of educational jargon in this book specifically for show more educators. This isn't a book I'd expect anyone outside of a classroom workspace to read. The purpose of this book is to introduce more activities for teachers to use in the class to help students who are learning English. The 'sheltered' portion used to refer to the fact that these students were isolated or "sheltered" in their language instruction by being in a separate classroom from other students. While this can still occur in a school setting, most ELLs are also placed in general/mainstream classes as well. Almost all teachers in the US are expected to have some sort of instructional aptitude for teaching ELLs in their class; though some take special courses to add certification onto their teaching certificates. show less