TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF FEATURES
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF THE SIOP MODEL
Key Components of the SIOP Model
Lesson Preparation
Building Background
Comprehensible Input
Strategies
Interaction
Practice & Application
Lesson Delivery
Review & Assessment
Why Is the SIOP Needed Now?
Organization and Purpose of This Book
In Summary
CHAPTER 2: THE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE
What is Academic Language?
How Does Academic Language Fit Into the SIOP Model?
How Is Academic Language Manifested in Classroom Discourse?
Why Do English Learners Have Difficulty with Academic Language?
How Can We Effectively Teach Academic Language?
The Role of Discussion and Conversation in Developing Academic Language
What is the Academic Language of Science?
In Summary
CHAPTER 3: ACTIVITIES AND TECHNIQUES FOR PLANNING SIOP SCIENCE LESSONS (BY HOPE AUSTIN-PHILLIPS, AMY DITTON, AND DEBORAH SHORT)
Mr. Etherton’s Vignette
Introduction
Science Techniques and Activities
Lesson Preparation
Alternate materials
Enlarged/Adapted Text
Building Background
Magic Curtain of Science
Oh Yesterday!
Quickwrite
Signal Words
4-Corners Vocabulary
Vocabulary Key Rings
Comprehensible Input
Procedures with Graphics
Framed Outlines
Move It!
Strategies
SQP2RS (Squeepers)
Stop and Think
Insert Method
T-chart
Interaction
You Are There
Milling to Music
Practice & Application
Great Performances
Musical Flash Cards
Red Light/Green Light
Lesson Delivery
Nine Squares
Stop That Video
Review & Assessment
Web of Information
Snowball!
Pass the Note Card
Simultaneous Round Table
Science Lesson Plans
In Summary
Revisiting Mr. Etherton
CHAPTER 4: LESSON AND UNIT DESIGN FOR SIOP SCIENCE LESSONS (BY AMY DITTON AND HOPE AUSTIN-PHILLIPS)
Mrs. Allen’s Vignette
Introduction
Objects in the Universe
Unit Overview, Grades K-2
Day Lesson Design
K-2 Unit
Newton’s First Law of Motion
Unit Overview, Grades 3-5
Day Lesson Design
3-5 Unit
Science Rocks!
Unit Overview, Grades 6-8
Day Lesson Design
6-8 Unit
Cells
Unit Overview, Grades 9-12
Day Lesson Design
9-12 Unit
In Summary
Revisiting Mrs. Allen
CHAPTER 5: PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
What We Have Learned
What Our SIOP Science Contributors Have Learned
Thoughts From the Contributors to the Other SIOP Content Books
Final Thoughts
APPENDIX A: COMPONENTS AND FEATURES OF THE SIOP MODEL
APPENDIX B: EXAMPLES OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE IN SCIENCE STANDARDS (K-2, 3-5, 5-8, 9-12)
REFERENCES
INDEX