Wow, incredible lesson planning using SIOP!!! Definitely worth a look.
Another great article from CREDE. Cognitively complex lessons for ESL students.
"Contextualize the learning of language and literacy". Yep, that is what we're doing with SIOP. We are helping teachers become aware of the language skills (we generally take for granted) students need to access the content in their classrooms.
A teacher demonstrates his thinking as he figures out how to write lessons when teaching ESL students.
ObjectiveThis is a great 6 step lesson planning assistant that helps you write langugae objectives that help you meet your content objectives. Also includes other help for sheltered techniques.
A good source of information for teachers learning to differentiate from Wilmette District 39.
Southwest Education Development Laboratory - Writing language objectives and MORE
How a languge objective is used to help the student get to the content objective.
In depth PP from St. Paul Public Schools on how to write language objectives and how it applies to our teaching in K-12. Great training PP resource.
Sentence frames provide students with the essential sentence parts provided. Students fill in the missing words and use these as foundation for discussions, sharing what they've learned, providing information, practicing description, compare and contrast, sequencing, etc. These are basic, but frames can be used to teach paragraph development too.
Building in the scaffolding device, sentence frames, into software application, KidsWork 2
Stanford has great tools for secondary teachers using SIOP, sheltered instruction, also known as SDAIE. This site includes specific help for math and science teachers