<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>This new addition to the best-selling SIOP® Model series shows how to use the SIOP® Model with pre-K and kindergarten English learners so they can fully participate in all aspects of early schooling. </B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Understand the young English learner and language development, learn all eight components of the SIOP Model (lesson preparation, building background, comprehensible input and strategies, interaction and lesson delivery, practice & application and review & assessment), and see how other programs have used the SIOP Model to create an optimal learning environment for their young students. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Focuses on <B>preschool-aged children and kindergarteners</B>—and shows how to create an effective and developmentally appropriate instructional setting for these young English learners.</DIV></LI></UL> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Provides an <B>overview of the SIOP Model</B>—and explains its research support and application to early childhood programs. </DIV></LI></UL> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Describes the<B> young English learner, current demographic trends and the fundamentals of language development</B> early in the book—to provide a context for later material (Chapters 2 and 3). </DIV></LI></UL> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Devotes four chapters to the <B>eight components of the SIOP Model</B>—so educators learn how to use lesson preparation, building background, comprehensible input and strategies, interaction and lesson delivery, practice & application and review & assessment with their young English learners (Chapters 4-7). </DIV></LI></UL> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Provides <B>a sample lesson plan</B> and highlights<B> three sample programs</B>—so educators can see how to implement the framework in different settings and circumstances. </DIV></LI></UL> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Includes a <B>comprehensive version of the SIOP protocol and an abbreviated version</B>—so educators learn how to use the tool to observe lessons, provide feedback, and support other teachers (Chapter 9 and Appendix A).</DIV></LI></UL>