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Produced by: Andra Day

Genre = Multimedia source

Intrest level = 4-12th

Teaching Idea = This is a short documentary on Deaf awareness. This can start debates in the classroom and introduce a unit on deaf cultural or even any other cultural debates.

Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqKEUhMLW-E

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Author - Ginny Rorby
Online review: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/hurt-go-happy

Publication Date = August 8th, 2006

Genre = Fiction

Interest Level = 6-8th grade

Approximate Test Level = DRA N/A, Guided Reading N/A

Teaser = Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, is used to being left out of conversations because her mother never allowed her to learn ASL. When one day she wanders off on her own she finds an unlikely friend with a pet chimp who uses ASL to communicate. This is a loving story about a girl who learns who she really is and what she can do.

Teaching Idea = Create a story quilt for different chapters in the book. Everyone reads the book together but then everyone gets a certain chapter to write about and make an illustration, so then we can come together and create a story quilt when we add them all together.

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Poetry by: ASL THAT
Produced by: ASL THAT

Genre = Multimedia source

Intrest level = 4-8th

Teaching Idea = This is a youtube video on ASL classifiers and in this one he is doing a story about two buccaneers. A teaching idea for students would be to watch the video and see how he goes from numbers 1-10 in ASL to create a story. Then students can go in a circle and create their own story by using the numbers 1-10. Using classifiers is a great way to story tell in ASL and describe what you may be seeing or doing.

Link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeb30LDTOSI

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Poetry by: Erenn Singapore
Produced by: Hello Poetry

Genre = Multimedia source

Intrest level = 6-8th

Teaching Idea = Use this poem to start deciphering poetry, while looking at rhyme schemes, line schemes, meaning, climax, etc. Also students can sign this poem in ASL.

Link - https://hellopoetry.com/words/deaf/

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Author - Sherryl Jordan
Online review: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-689-82140-0

Publication Date = 1999

Genre = Fiction

Interest Level = 9-12th grade

Approximate Test Level = DRA N/A, Guided Reading N/A

Teaser = Back in medieval times a women named Marnie is left to fend for herself in a town where her only friends are the priest and a boy everyone thinks is "mad" when he is actually just deaf. As she takes curiosity the boy people in the town believe she is a witch or evil for talking to him and befriending the boy. Will she be able to convince the town otherwise?

Teaching Idea = Use this format to decipher language the students may not be familiar with - http://www.kidzone.ws/plans/view.asp?i=607

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Author - Marlee Matlin
Online review: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-689-82208-7

Publication Date = 2002

Genre = Fiction

Interest Level = 6-8th grade

Approximate Test Level = DRA 60, Guided Reading Z

Teaser = A loving story of the struggles of friendship. Young Megan is deaf, and a new friend just moved to the neighborhood, a hearing girl named Cindy. They instantly become best friends but when they decide to go to summer camp together things get a little tense when Megan finds a new friend who shares her language. Will these two overcome the barriers between their worlds? Read to find out!

Teaching Idea = https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/BUi1mguoTjimZRD2zhbI Lesson plan #1

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Poetry by: John Maucere
Produced by: Jon Savage

Genre = Multimedia source

Intrest level = 9-12th

Teaching Idea = This can be a receptive learning exercise, especially combing ASL and something that is revenant to High Schoolers, driving. It's a good way to bring discussion to the classroom, and to talk about why he choose specific signs to show what he is doing. Afterwards the students can make up their own poems in ASL.

Link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoRQGkf7CiA

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Author - Brian Selznick
Online review: https://www.booklistonline.com/Wonderstruck-Brian-Selznick/pid=4884402

Publication Date = September 13, 2011

Genre = Fiction

Interest Level = 6-8th grade

Approximate Test Level = DRA 60, Guided Reading W

Teaser = A story where lives collide! We follow the lives of two young people from two different time periods, one from the past and one the present. These two may have more in common than we originally thought as Brian Selznick throws us through a very detailed graphic novel to follow the lives of these two deaf children and their search for answers.

Teaching Idea = https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/special-story/

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Author - Francis O'Roark Dowell
Online review: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-689-83174-4

Publication Date = May 1st, 2000

Genre = Fiction

Interest Level = 6-8th grade

Approximate Test Level = DRA 60, Guided Reading X

Teaser = We meet Dovey Coe, 12-year-old, stubborn, speak-her-mind kind of gal. She loves her country home upon the hills, her pretty sister Caroline, and her deaf brother Amos. Although her happy life changes when she is accused of murder!  She says she innocent, but the truth may come at the cost of her brother. How will she get out of this one?

Teaching Idea = https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/dovey-coe-lesson-plan/

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Author - Josh Berk
Online review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6435578-the-dark-days-of-hamburger-halpin

Publication Date = February 9th, 2010

Genre = Mystery, fiction

Interest Level = 4th-8th grade

Approximate Test Level = N/A

Teaser = Being an overweight deaf kid makes Will feel like the least popular kid in school, but when a mystery comes around it comes in handy to be extra observant. Will this dorky kid be this school's most unsuspected hero? Read it to find out!

Teaching Idea = Come up with a mystery game and student have to use context and visual cues to help find it out. We must pretend that we don't have access to everything a mainstream child may have, we need to use other skills besides talking and listening to figure it out.

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Author - Antony John
Online review: http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2014/11/07/andrea-shettle-reviews-five-flavors-of-dumb/

Publication Date = 2010

Genre = Fiction

Interest Level = 8-12th grade

Approximate Test Level = Guided Reading Z+

Teaser = A power struggle story of a high school girl who became deaf at the age of 6, we follow her through various struggles, such as friends, music, and teaching others about herself.

Teaching Idea = Shades of meaning, how children come upon many words in a book that have different meanings. Students give examples from the book of similar words said they meant the same, such as deaf or hard of hearing. We use sample paint chips to put each word on a different color of a chip to show how they are different but mean something similar.

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The Giving Tree in American Sign Language 

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Translated by: Dyan Kovacs
Produced by: Elsie Stecker

Genre = Multimedia source

Intrest level = K-12th

Teaching Idea = This can be a lesson on ASL classifiers, which are movements to show what we are doing. After watching the video ask the students what movements they saw the translator do, such as being a tree, then a stump, or switching between being the boy and the tree. Then ask them to come up with their own classifiers for things they may be doing.

Link = https://youtu.be/moUvQIsro_M

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Author - Ann Clare LeZotte
Online review: https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/t4-a-novel/

Publication date = 2008

Genre = Poetry, Fiction

Interest Level = 5th-8th grade

Approximate Test Level = N/A

Teaser = A poetry depiction of a young deaf girl during WW2 in Germany, and the struggles she faced along the way.

Teaching Idea = Some students think that poetry has to rhyme, but this book focuses more one-word structure and verses. This is a good book to introduce to students to show them that when they create poetry, there are many different ways to do it. Then students can create poetry about their own life, or something they make up.

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Author - Jacqueline Woodson
Online review: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-23989-2

Publication date = March 1, 2007

Genre = Fiction

Interest Level = 3-5, 6-8th grade

Approximate test level = DRA 60, Guided Reading X

Teaser = In this book we travel back to the 1970's where groovy and scat cats were all the rise. We hear from a perspective of young Frannie and her world, which includes her deaf brother, her loving mama, best friend Stephanie, and a new kid they call "Jesus boy" we grow with Frannie as she encounters new things in her life, and how a little kindness towards someone can go a long way.

Teaching Idea = For this book I feel a good teaching idea would be students can write down things when they remember they were the new kid, such as the first day of kindergarten or changing schools. They should write about how they felt and if there was anyone who stood out to them and took the time to become their friend. This teaches inclusion, and how everyone comes from different backgrounds.

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Author - Bell, Cece
Illustrator -  Bell, Cece

Online review: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/books/review/el-deafo-by-cece-bell.html

Publication date = 2014 by Amulet Books

Genre = Fiction/Autobiography/Graphic Novel

Interest level = 4-9th grade

Approximate text level = DRA 60 , Guided Reading X

Teaser = This novel is a depiction of the author's true story of when she becomes deaf and the years that followed. We are taken into the world of a young child and how she overcame the obstacles of her early years of being deaf in the 70s/80s. It's an inspiring tale that shows how perseverance and courage can go a long way.

Teaching Idea = This book can be a great teaching idea on inclusion, and how everyone is different in their own unique way and we need to be accepting of that. Everyone may have their own "El Deafo". In the book, the main character went through a lot of feelings of isolation, and how certain people befriended her and impacted her life with kindness. By reading this book allowed in class, or even in groups the teacher can teach a lesson on how befriending others or even complimenting them on something, can make their day and even yours.