(Ebook) Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching English Learners With Diverse Abilities by Jana Echevarria, Anne Graves ISBN 9780137056361, 0137056362

(Ebook) Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching English Learners With Diverse Abilities by Jana Echevarria, Anne Graves ISBN 9780137056361, 0137056362

The fourth edition of Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching English Language Learners with Diverse Abilities captures the vitality of modern classrooms with a focus on ELL instruction in the content areas. The new edition is comprehensively revised to address the important overlap between sheltered instruction and special education adaptations and provide teachers with the support and direction needed to use sheltered instruction with students of varying abilities. Renowned authors Jana Echevarria and Anne Graves provide practical methods that demonstrate how to implement this type of instruction with a full range of learners.What makes this new edition unique?Expanded coverage of Response to Intervention and how it is effective with English Learners.Specific examples of how to differentiate instruction for individual student's needs.Updated discussion of effective instructional practices for English Learners that reflects the finding of the National Literacy Panel and CREDE research synthesis.Sample Language Arts lesson plan is included to show effective practice.Discussion of professional learning communities is included in Chapter 8.Importance of a separate English language development block is discussed along with the research base for ELD instruction.Recent, up-to-date research findings are included throughout the text.