Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching English Learners With Diverse Abilities

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.

Jana Echevarria, Ph.D., Professor Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, has taught in special education, English as a Second Language and bilingual programs. She is an internationally known expert on second language learners and her research and publications focus on effective instruction for English learners, including those with learning disabilities. Currently, she is a Fulbright Specialist and is Co-Principal Investigator with the Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE) funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Anne W. Graves, Ph. D. is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Special Education at San Diego State University. She has teaching and research experience in the schools since 1975. She has conducted numerous research projects on the effects of reading and writing instruction with particular focus on ethnolinguistically diverse students. Her major focus is to develop improved teaching practices for English learners.