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Teaser: This poster should be hung around schools or any public place as a way to spread awareness for Autism. The words on this poster are common themes throughout this text set.

Teaching Idea: Teach students about the significance of the puzzle piece symbol. I would print out cutouts of puzzle pieces and have each student design one. I would then connect them and hang the single banner around the room. This would remind the students that they are all unique yet still connected with one another.

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Author: Benjamin Giroux
Date: April 2016
Genre: Poetry
Interest Level: 5th grade
Teaser: This poem was written by a boy with autism in 5th grade. It calls out for everyone to recognize and celebrate their uniqueness.
Teaching Idea: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/this-story-encouraging-students-1015.html
This lesson plan was created to help students find their own voice when writing.

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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

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Author: Naoki Higashida
Publication Date: March 22, 2016
Genre: Autobiography
Interest Level: 6th-8th grade
Text Level: upper middle level
Teaser: This book claims to answer the difficult questions that people have about people with autism's behavior. The book is written by a thirteen year old boy who shares his unique perspectives.
Teaching Idea: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/multiple-perspectives-building-critical-30629.html?tab=4
This lesson from Read Write Think is about exploring multiple perspectives and building critical thinking skills.

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Everyday Heaven: Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autism

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Everyday Heaven: Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autism

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Title: Donna Williams
Illustrator: N/A
Publication Date: February 15, 2004
Genre: Autobiography
Interest Level: 8-10th
Text Level: lower secondary
Teaser: This book is all about a woman's journey in life with autism. She describes her triumphs and the hard times that she persevered through.
Teaching Idea: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/understanding-stereotypes.cfm

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Through the Eyes of Aliens: A Book About Autistic People

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Through the Eyes of Aliens: A Book About Autistic People

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Author: Jasmine Lee O'Neill
Illustrator: N/A
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
Genre: Autobiography
Interest Level: High school
Text Level: upper secondary level
Teaser: This self reflection on the realities of having autism is a great book for high schoolers to read. The author argues that society wants to "normalize" people with autism instead of celebrating their differences.
Teaching Idea:

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Waiting for Benjamin: A Story About Autism

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Waiting for Benjamin: A Story About Autism

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Author: Alexandra Altman
Illustrator: Susan Keeter
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
Genre: Fiction
Interest Level:  Kindergaren- 2nd
Text Level: Lexile: AD620L
Teaser: This book is about the relationship a kid has with his brother who has autism. He doesn't understand at first why his brother is receiving all the attention. He comes to understand and love his brother.
Teaching Idea: Activity based from the Jellybean Conspiracy. Start by giving each student a jelly bean at random. Then have a discussion about how all the jelly beans come in different colors and shapes. Have the students turn to a neighbor and talk about what this message means to them. http://www.tolerance.org/blog/jellybean-offers-powerful-lesson-inclusion

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Author: Becky Edwards
Illustrator: Ronda Armitage
Publication Date: 1999
Genre: Fiction
Interest Level: PreK-Kindergarten
Text Level: lower elementary
Teaser: This book is about a boy describing what it is like to have a brother who has autism. He explains how it impacts his life and ultimately how it is a blessing.
Teaching Idea: Have students get into small groups and create a discussion about siblings. Then, have students write a letter to one of their siblings explaining what they love about them. For Kindergarten kids.

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Title: Beautiful Blessing(Song about a sister with Autism)

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Title: Beautiful Blessing(Song about a sister with Autism)

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Author: Chelsea Stepp

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"Autism Spectrum Disorder affects individuals in different ways, and can range from very mild to severe. Boys are 4 times more likely to have ASD."

This infographic would be beneficial on the walls of a classroom. It is important for students not on the spectrum to have an understanding of what autism is and how many children it affects.

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Author: Alyea Pierce
Publication Date: November 18th, 2014
Genre: Spoken Poetry
Approximate Interest Level: 2nd-Adult
Brief Teaser: "He is the enough that we ignore. He wears glasses with lens as thick as his mothers skin. He still loves to sing Beyonce's Love On Top. His mother called him a miracle but miracles are surprises, God knew what he was blessing this earth with."
Teaching Idea: Symbolism. After listening to this poem, I could talk about how poets use symbolism to make a statement. Each student could reflect and write down an example of symbolism that she used in this poem.

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Author: Adreanna Edwards
Illustrator: Tom Dineen
Publication Date: 2001
Genre: Fiction
Approximate interest level: K-2
Text Level: lower elementary
Brief Teaser: "Our class is learning more about autism too. The more we learn, the better we can understand Sam and his feelings."
Teaching Idea: A teaching idea for this book is to talk about the different ways that a student with autism could be affected by the school environment. Then the students could talk about ways that the classroom affects their learning. It is important for students to learn that all students face challenges when it comes to learning in school and students with autism just have a different set of challenges.

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author: Stefanski, Daniel
Illustrator: Mitchell, Hazel
Publication Date: 2011
Genre: Narrative
Approximate interest level: 3rd-4th grade
Text Level: Lexile: 770      Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 4.6, AR Pts: 0.5
Brief Teaser: "It is easy to be friends with an autistic kid. Ask about my life. Ask me what I like to do. Laugh with me and not at me."
Teaching Idea: The lesson to be learned through this book is that students with autism do not pick up on social cues at times. The lesson could be about how students can communicate with one another. An activity could be Roll A Topic. The student would roll a dice and then give a corresponding fact about themselves.

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author: Levine, Michelle
Illustrator: Dreisbach, Heather
Publication Date: 9/28/2014
Genre: Science
Approximate interest Level: K-3
Text level: Accelerated Reader: IL: LG, BL: 2.9, AR Pts: 0.5
Brief Teaser: "ASD has no cure. But a person with ASD can improve many skills. It starts with a team of helpers."
Teaching Idea: There are large images in this book to support the points the author is making. A lesson here is to have the students, in their own words, interpret and describe how the image reflects the text .

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Author: Band, Eve and Hecht, Emily
Illustration: Cotton, Sue
Publication date: 2001
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest level: Upper Elementary
Approximate text level: 3rd to 4th grade
Brief Teaser: " Sometimes I try to play games with Daniel, like Nintendo or Monopoly Junior. When we do this Daniel always quits in the middle. We're having a good time and I ask him, "Why do you want to stop? We're having so much fun." The he says that he just wants to quit."
Teaching Idea:  This book contains a couple words that my students may not know that I would consider vocabulary words if we were talking about autism such as high functioning autism. For these words/phrases I would use the PAVE procedure. According to the University of West Virginia Department of Education, PAVE stands for the four parts of the procedure - prediction, association, verification, and evaluation.  Through this procedure students are predicting the meaning of a word based on content clues. They then associate the word with a mental image, verify the meaning in a dictionary and evaluate their prediction.

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Author: Tourville, Amanda
Illustrator: Sorra, Kristin
Publication Date: January 1, 2010
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate interest level: K-3
approximate text level: exile: 600 Adult-directed text      Accelerated Reader: IL: LG, BL: 3, AR Pts: 0.5
Brief Teaser: "Sometimes Zack goes on and on about airplanes. He repeats the same facts over and over. It can seem like he is in his own world."
Teaching idea:  I would use Sentence Combining for this book. Many of the books I chose have simple language so it would be a good activity to try and piece together two simple sentences into one complex sentence. I would give my students a paragraph from the text and ask them to come up with one combination of two simple sentences.  I would then have the students revise a sample of their own writing, to either undo a run on sentence or combine two simple sentences.