Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching English-Language Learners with Diverse Abilities (2nd Edition)

This text clearly defines, "sheltered instruction," or Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE), and provides strategies for its successful implementation in the classroom. Its focus on using sheltered instruction with students of varying abilities makes it a unique tool for teachers. This text speaks specifically to instruction in the content areas, confronting the fact that students learning English might struggle in those subjects. The authors provide practical methods that demonstrate how to implement this type of instruction with a full range of learners. Focusing on the use of sheltered instruction with students of varying abilities, Echevarria and Graves address the important overlap between sheltered instruction and special education adaptations. One important function of Sheltered Content Instruction, Second Edition is to provide teachers with the support and direction needed to undertake the sheltered approach. Specific examples of sheltered content instruction and scenarios depicting classroom interaction during this type of instruction provide models for teachers and those preparing to teach.Case studies and vignettes illustrate this interaction for the reader.

The number of limited-English-speaking students entering schools continues to increase, as does the diversity of academic background and skills. Educators require specific preparation for teaching content area subject matter to students from a variety of language and cultural backgrounds. However, books for the preparation of teachers typically have been inadequate, until now. This book stems from the authors' desire to prepare teachers to deliver content area instruction to English language learners with diverse abilities using a sheltered instruction approach (teaching content area knowledge and skills in a more understandable way). The authors provide practical methods that demonstrate how to implement this type of instruction with the full range of learners. It also provides teachers with the support and direction needed in undertaking the sheltered approach. Any level of teacher, specifically those teaching ESL students and Special Education students.