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Title: ASL Classifiers for Furniture & Objects

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Title: ASL Classifiers for Furniture & Objects

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Performed by: ASL THAT
Genre: Multimedia
Approximate interest level: 5th to 8th grade
Teaser: This is a video of ASL THAT showing us how to use classifiers to tell locations and orientations of furniture and objects.
Teaching Idea: This video can be used to show students how to correctly use classifiers to show the locations of things inside of a house. It can also show them how to use classifiers overall.

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ASL Classifiers (CLs) for Furniture & Objects

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Performed by: My Smart Hand
Genre: Multimedia
Approximate interest level: 1st to 4th grade
Teaser: This is a video of My Smart Hands signing the alphabet and giving a lesson on how to sign the alphabet.
Teaching Idea: This video can be used to show students how to sign the alphabet. It has a lesson, not just the song, so that students can learn how to sign the letters correctly.

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ASL ABC Lesson and Song - Learn Sign Language Alphabet

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Author: Jennifer Moore-Mallinos
Illustrator: Marta Fabrega
Publication Date: 2000
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: K to 3rd grade
Approximate text level: K to 2nd grade
Teaser: Taken from a child's point of view, this book describes the challenges that hard of hearing or deaf children experience on a day to day basis.
Teaching Idea: This book can be used for deaf and hard of hearing children to let them know they are not alone. It can also be used for parents who have children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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Author: Kate Gaynor
Illustrator: Karen Quirke
Publication Date: August 1, 2009
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: K-3rd grade
Approximate text level: 1st to 3rd grade
Teaser: Ben is a young boy who is hard of hearing and turning seven years old. He doesn't know what he wants for his birthday, but his friends decided to surprise him with a party.
Teaching Idea: This book focuses more on hard of hearing individuals and how everyone can participate in birthday party activities. The students can brainstorm different ideas on how to make all activities accessible for anyone with or without a disability.

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Title: Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

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Title: Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

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Author: Leah Hager Cohen
Publication Date: 1994
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate interest level: 9th to 12th grade
Approximate text level: 8th to 11th grade
Teaser: This book talks about Lafayette School for the Deaf in New York. It talks about Leah Hager Cohen's life growing up on the school's campus because her dad was the superintendent. As an hearing individual in a deaf world, Cohen recount many stories from her past.
Teaching Idea: This book can teach hearing children about deafness from a point of view that they are more likely to understand. Hearing students can use this book to understand what it is like to live within a deaf environment

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Author: Marlee Matlin
Publication Date: November 30, 2002
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: 7th to 10th grade
Approximate text level: 7th to 8th grade
Teaser: This book is about two young girls who become fast friends named Cindy and Megan. Megan is deaf and uses sign language as well as vocalizing. Megan introduces Cindy to her friends online and helps her to start learning sign language.
Teaching Idea: This book can teach students that no matter who you are, sometimes you are going to need help. It shows the students that anybody with or without a disability can have relationships with others. The students can focus on relationships and what are healthy ways to be in a relationship with another person.

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Author: Anthony John
Publication Date: September 29, 2011
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: 6th to 12th grade
Approximate text level: 7th to 10th grade
Teaser: Piper is a seventeen year old girl whom is deaf. She is challenged to manage her high school's popular rock band even though she can't hear the music. It talks about her challenges with the five different members of the band.
Teaching Idea: This book will teach students about different forms of communication through different languages and through different personalities. The students can do an activity on how they would communicate with the characters in the novel to practice their own communication skills.

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Author: Brian Selznick
Publication Date: September 13, 2011
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: 5th to 12th grade
Approximate text level: 5th to 9th grade
Teaser: This book is two different stories that are set fifty years apart. Ben's story is told in words while Rose's story is told in pictures. Both of them set out alone to achieve their dreams and goals and to find out what they are missing. Ben is in an accident and loses his hearing.
Teaching Idea: Since this book is targeted for older students, it can teach students how a disability can truly affect a person's life. It also highlights the issues and problems that someone who is deaf might experience. It also allows them to see how isolating being deaf may be for someone with communication.

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Title: I have a Sister- My Sister is Deaf

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Title: I have a Sister- My Sister is Deaf

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Author: Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson
Illustrator: Deborah Kogan Ray
Publication Date: November 12, 1977
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: Pre K to 2nd grade
Approximate text level: Pre K to 2nd grade
Teaser: An older sister affectionately describes her younger deaf sister who loves to run and jump and play. She describes how her sister experiences things everyday.
Teaching Idea: This book can teach students that just because someone is deaf or hard of hearing, doesn't mean that they can't do everything  that hearing individuals can do. Students can talk about what the sister in the book loves to do and compare it to what they enjoy to do.

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Author: Isaac Millman
Illustrator: Isaac Millman
Publication Date: August 29, 2000
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: 1st to 3rd grade
Approximate text level: K to 2nd grade
Teaser: Moses and his friends go to school and this book walks us through what everyday looks like for Moses and his friends. It follows them from the bus ride to school to recess to learning how to sign a new song to heading home from school.
Teaching Idea: This book can teach students that deaf and hard of hearing individuals can and do almost all the same things that they do everyday. It can show them how others may complete tasks in different ways but they can still complete the task or activity.

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Author: Wendy Kupfer
Illustrator: Tammie Lyon
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
Genre: Realistic fiction
Approximate interest level: 2nd to 6th grade
Approximate text level: K to 3rd grade
Teaser: Almigal is a little girl who has a hearing loss and wants to be able to hear everything happening in the world around her. She searches for a solution throughout this upbeat story.
Teaching Idea: This book can help teach students about cochlear implants and all the different options that deaf and hard of hearing individuals can choose. They can be taught that there is no right or wrong choice for an individual. Chapter 6 teaching lesson that I chose was the KWL because it will show me as a teacher how much my students knew before and how much they learned from the book.

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Title: Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody- ASL Song

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Title: Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody- ASL Song

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Performed by: Stephen Torrence
Genre: Multimedia
Approximate interest level: 6th to 12th grade
Teaser: This is a video of Stephen Torrence signing the song, Bohemian Rhapsody.
Teaching Idea: This video can be used to show students the importance of facial expressions while signing. The facial expressions in this song help to tell the story and give viewers a sense of emotion.

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"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, performed in sign language by Stephen Torrence. Gloss/lyrics below and captions by yours truly. Thanks to all who voted and chose this song from among hundreds of requests! Note: I guessed the name signs for Galileo and Figaro based on the qualities "telescope" and "happy," respectively.

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Author: Debbie Blackington
Illustrator: Debbie Blackington
Publication Date: November 28 2011
Genre: Realistic fiction
Approximate interest level: 1st to 3rd grade
Approximate text level: 2nd to 3rd grade
Teaser: This book is about Gracie, a little girl who has trouble hearing. She realizes she can't hear and her family discovers the world of hearing aids.Gracie is able to rediscover different sounds around her with hearing aids.
Teaching Idea: This teaches students about hearing aids and what they do and how they help different people. This allows students to become aware of hearing aids and not be confused by them.

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Author: Cece Bell

Illustrator: Cece Bell

Publication Date: September 2, 2014
Genre: Autobiography
Approximate interest level: 3rd to 12th grade
Approximate text level: 3rd-6th grade
Teaser: This is the story of how Cece Bell grew up with her hearing aid and how she grew to who she is today. It talks about how she decides to treat her hearing aid like a superpower to help her create friends and feel less "different".
Teaching Idea: This book can teach students that just because an individual looks a little different from everyone else doesn't mean they are weird. It can teach students to be more accepting of others and gives them an opportunity to learn about deafness. Reading Across the Disciplines lesson.

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Author: Isaac Millman

Illustrator: Isaac Millman

Publication Date: April 17, 1998
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate interest level: 1st to 3rd grade
Approximate text level: K-2nd grade
Teaser: Moses and his school friends are all deaf and they go on a school field trip to an orchestra concert. They feel the vibrations when the orchestra plays and find out the percussionist is deaf as well.
Teaching Idea: This book can teach students how to sign simple words and phrase. It also has the ASL alphabet in the back of the book which can be taught to students.