SIOP Model for Teaching History-Social Studies to English Learners, The

Series
Pearson
Author
Deborah J. Short / MaryEllen Vogt / Jana Echevarria  
Publisher
Pearson
Cover
Softcover
Edition
1
Language
English
Total pages
240
Pub.-date
July 2010
ISBN13
9780205627615
ISBN
0205627617
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Enhance your History-Social Studies content instruction with the SIOP Model and transform the academic English and content area skills of your English learners.

 

Based on the best-selling resource, Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model by acclaimed authors Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short; teachers, coaches, and intervention teachers have access to research-based, SIOP-tested techniques for lessons specifically for the History-Social Studies classrooms. This highly anticipated book, The SIOP Model for Teaching History-Social Studies to English Learners addresses the issues faced in teaching history-social studies to English learners (ELs) at each grade-level. SIOP techniques and activities organized around the eight SIOP components guide educators in promoting academic language development along with comprehensible content.

 

Written for SIOP teachers and those who have learned the SIOP Model, this book includes proven, effective lessons and comprehensive units. In addition, this book provides ideas to adapt the techniques for students at different levels of English proficiency. This book is sure to become an indispensable resource for history-social studies educators of English learners.

Features

  • Presents a systematic process for teaching both the academic content of history-social studies and its associated academic language to English learners.
  • Offers ideas and activities about teaching history-social studies and organizes activities by grade-bands—K-2, 3-5 (or 6), 6-8, and 9-12 and SIOP components.
  • Provides use-tomorrow ideas and activities for implementing the eight components of the SIOP Model in a history-social studies classroom.
  • Includes lesson plans and comprehensive units that illustrate how a particular activity can be effective for ALL students, not just English learners.
  • Create the ideal SIOP classroom with other resourcesfrom the SIOP Model Series: 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP ModelImplementing the SIOP Model through Effective Coaching and Professional Development; The SIOP Model for Administrators; Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners; and Making Content Comprehensible for Secondary English Learners ; The SIOP Model for Teaching Math to English Learners; The SIOP Model for Teaching English - Language Arts to English Learners; and The SIOP Model for Teaching Science to English Learners (all published by Pearson)
  • Table of Contents

    PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    CHAPTER 1: THE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

    What is Academic Language?

    How Is Academic Language Manifested in Classroom Discourse?

    What is the Academic Language of Social Studies and History ?

    Why Do English Learners Have Difficulty with Academic Language?

    How Can We Effectively Teach Academic Language With the SIOP Model?

    Academic Vocabulary

    Oral Discourse

    Concluding Thoughts

    CHAPTER 2: ACTIVITIES AND TECHNIQUES FOR PLANNING SIOP HISTORY-SOCIAL STUDIES LESSONS: LESSON PREPARATION, BUILDING BACKGROUND, COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT, & STRATEGIES (BY JOHN SEIDLITZ, ROBIN LITEN-TEJADA, AND DEBORAH SHORT)

    John Michael’s Teaching Situation

    Introduction

    History and Social Studies Techniques and Activities

    Lesson Preparation

    Building Language Objectives from Content Objectives

    Differentiating Sentence Starters

    Building Background

    Concrete Personal Experiences

    Post a Connection

    Oh Yesterday! + Year

    Predict Definitions

    Vocabulary Scan

    Comprehensible Input

    Prop Box Improv

    Listen for Information

    Move It!

    Strategies

    Highlight Key Information in the Text

    Cut and Match Answers

    Expert/Novice

    Concluding Thoughts

    CHAPTER 3: ACTIVITIES AND TECHNIQUES FOR PLANNING SIOP HISTORY-SOCIAL STUDIES LESSONS: INTERACTION, PRACTICE & APPLICATION, LESSON DELIVERY, REVIEW & ASSESSMENT (BY ROBIN LITEN-TEJADA, JOHN SEIDLITZ, AND DEBORAH SHORT)

    Introduction

    Interaction

    Structured Conversations

    Learning Styles Debate

    You Are There

    Practice & Application

    Readers Theater

    Living Diorama

    Partner Listening Dictation

    Go Graphic — One Step Further

    Lesson Delivery

    Group Response with a White Board

    Chunk and Chew Review

    Stand Up/Sit Down

    Review & Assessment

    Oral Number 1-3 for Self-Assessment

    Writing Self-Assessment Rubrics

    Number Wheels

    Whip Around, Pass Option

    Numbered Heads Together with Movement

    Differentiated Tickets Out

    Concluding Thoughts

    Revisiting Mr. Michaels

    CHAPTER 4: SIOP HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES UNIT DESIGN AND LESSON PLANNING

    Ms. Parry’s Vignette

    Introduction

    SIOP Unit Design

    SIOP Unit Planner 1

    SIOP Unit Planner 2

    SIOP Lesson Planning

    Technology in SIOP Lessons

    SIOP History — Social Studies Lesson Formats

    Concluding Thoughts

    CHAPTER 5: SIOP SOCIAL STUDIES UNIT, GRADES K-2 (BY ROBIN LITEN-TEJADA AND DEBORAH SHORT)

    Introduction

    Past and Present

    Lesson 1

    Lesson 2

    Lesson 3

    Lesson 4

    Lesson 5

    Lesson 6

    Concluding Thoughts

    CHAPTER 6: SIOP SOCIAL STUDIES UNIT, GRADES 3-5 (BY ROBIN LITEN-TEJADA AND DEBORAH SHORT)

    Introduction

    Where in the World Are You?

    Lesson 1

    Lesson 2

    Lesson 3

    Lesson 4

    Lesson 5

    Lesson 6

    Concluding Thoughts

    CHAPTER 7: SIOP U.S. HISTORY UNIT, GRADES 6-8 (BY JOHN SEIDLITZ AND DEBORAH SHORT)

    Introduction

    Causes of the American Revolution

    Lesson 1

    Lesson 2

    Lesson 3

    Lesson 4

    Concluding Thoughts

    CHAPTER 8: SIOP GLOBAL HISTORY UNIT, GRADES 9-12 (BY JOHN SEIDLITZ AND DEBORAH SHORT)

    Introduction

    Containing Communism After World War II

    Lesson 1

    Lesson 2

    Lesson 3

    Lesson 4

    Lesson 5

    Concluding Thoughts

    CHAPTER 9: PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER

    What We Have Learned

    What Our SIOP History and Social Studies Contributors Have Learned

    Final Thoughts

    APPENDIX A: COMPONENTS AND FEATURES OF THE SIOP MODEL

    APPENDIX B: EXAMPLES OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)

    APPENDIX C: BLACKLINE MASTERS FOR K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12 UNITS

    REFERENCES

    INDEX

    Back Cover

    Deborah Short, MaryEllen Vogt, and Jana Echevarría

    The SIOP Model for Teaching History-Social Studies to English Learners

     

     

    Based on the best-selling resource Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model by acclaimed authors Jana Echevarría, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short, K-12 history-social studies teachers, coaches, and intervention specialists now have access to research-based, SIOP-tested techniques for lessons specifically for the history-social studies classroom.

     

    In The SIOP® Model for Teaching History-Social Studies to English Learners SIOP® techniques, activities, sample lessons and complete units guide educators in promoting academic language and development along with comprehensible content. To learn about other SIOP® Model resources available, see the inside front cover.

     

     

    Overwhelming Response from Reviewers! 

    “I LOVE the Teacher Think Alouds—brilliant!! I will have my student teachers do this in their reflections.”
    -Maggie Beddow, CSU Sacramento, Sacramento CA

     

    “The lessons are a strength of the book… they demonstrate and illustrate how to implement SIOP in the content area…[and] seem much more likely to elicit higher level thinking skills.”

    -Robin L. Gordon, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles CA

     

     

    Take a Glimpse Inside

    • Presents a systematic process for teaching both history-social studies academic content and language to English learners.
    • Offers ideas and activities for social studies, history, geography, civics and government, and economics (not just history and social studies) for grade-bands K-2, 3-5 (or 6), 6-8, and 9-12.
    • Provides use-tomorrow strategies for implementing the eight components of the SIOP® Model in a history-social studies classroom.
    • Includes lesson plans and comprehensive units that illustrate how a particular activity can be effective for all students, not just English learners.

    Author

    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.