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Making Content Comprehensible
for English Learners


Helping Educators Work Effectively with
English Language Learners

Resources

CAL offers a variety of resources and materials that feature the SIOP Model*, many designed to support our SIOP professional development services.

Publications

SIOP publicationsSIOP Packages

CAL has assembled two SIOP packages for your convenience and savings. Each component can also be purchased separately.

SIOP STARTER PACKAGE

This package was created for teachers, professional development staff, coaches, and administrators interested in designing and delivering SIOP professional development workshops for educators.

Order the SIOP Starter Package at the CAL Store.

 

SIOP COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE

This package of materials was assembled to provide educators the resources they need to teach others to use the SIOP Model in their classrooms through workshops, coaching, analysis of SIOP instruction, and discussion of relevant readings.

Order the SIOP Comprehensive Package at the CAL Store.

Individual components

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An Insider's Guide to SIOP Coaching
Arieh (Ari) Sherris, Thomas A. Bauder, and Lindsey Hillyard
This new resource is designed for district and site coaches, staff developers, mentors, teachers, and others who know the SIOP Model and are helping teachers implement it in their instruction. The guide offers practical suggestions for developing productive coaching relationships, helping teachers with effective SIOP lesson planning, conducting observations and providing feedback, and planning and sustaining SIOP coaching over time. 2007.
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Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model 3rd edition
Jana Echevarria, Mary Ellen Vogt,
& Deborah J. Short
The third edition of this widely-used publication presents the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model, a research-based and validated model of sheltered instruction. The SIOP Model allows educators to plan and implement high-quality sheltered lessons for English language learners that integrate English language and academic content instruction. Written by the researchers and developers of the Model, the book contains a comprehensive discussion of the SIOP Model's eight components, past and current research on the model, teaching scenarios, the SIOP observation protocol, and lesson plan templates. New with the third edition is a CD-ROM with teaching vignettes and interviews with the authors. 2007.
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Helping English Learners Succeed: An Overview of the SIOP Model
Justine Hudec and Deborah Short (Producers)
This resource, available in VHS or DVD format, is designed for administrators, policymakers, and educators as an introduction to sheltered content instruction and for teachers of education as a tool for use in methodology classes. Filmed in a documentary style, this video features six exemplary teachers who are seen following the SIOP Model and employing a wide range of teaching strategies that integrate language and content learning. The scenes show elementary, middle, and high school students in mathematics, science, and social studies classes. 2002.
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The SIOP Model: Sheltered Instruction for Academic Achievement
Justine Hudec and Deborah Short (Producers)
This professional development resource, available in VHS and DVD format, comprehensively demonstrates the research-based SIOP Model. It can be used to provide ongoing professional development for those who teach content to English language learners, as it showcases strategies for adapting instruction to the students' academic and language needs. Each of the SIOP Model's eight components is presented through footage from the math, science, and social studies classrooms of six exemplary teachers at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. The teachers elaborate on their lessons and SIOP techniques, and teacher educators and researchers describe the theory and research that support the model. The video serves as a companion to Using the SIOP Model: Professional Development Manual for Sheltered Instruction. 2002.
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Using the SIOP Model: Professional Development Manual for Sheltered Instruction
Deborah J. Short, Justine Hudec,
and Jana Echevarria
This manual is designed for teacher educators and professional developers who wish to teach others to use the SIOP Model in their classrooms. The manual serves as a companion to the video, The SIOP Model: Sheltered Instruction for Academic Achievement. Organized into 11 sections, the manual offers strategies, tools, and activities for instruction in the use of the SIOP components and provides reproducible masters for presentations and workshops. 2002.
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SIOP Model Digest Series
This collection of more than 30 ERIC digests and CREDE briefs is a valuable resource for those presenting the SIOP Model to educators. Each digest addresses an area of theory or practice related to the components of the SIOP Model, and many are recommended readings in the SIOP manual. Presenters may use the digests to launch an activity, facilitate a discussion, or review a feature of the SIOP Model. This product fits conveniently in the binder for Using the SIOP Model: Professional Development
Manual for Sheltered Instruction. 2004.
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*The SIOP Model was developed by researchers at California State University, Long Beach (Jana Echevarria and Mary Ellen Vogt), and the Center for Applied Linguistics (Deborah J. Short) under the auspices of the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE), a national research center funded by the U.S. Department of Education from 1996 through 2003. Learn more.