Saturday, April 15, 2017

A Picture Book of Helen Keller By: David A. Adler

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Book Title: A Picture Book of Helen Keller
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: John & Alexandra Wallner
Genre: Historical Fiction
Summary: The story of Helen Keller's life as told through kid friendly vocab and illustrations 
ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 2, Key Ideas and Details #3- Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
How it Connects:Students can take the challenges Helen faced growing up and discuss what actions she and her family took to overcome them
ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 2, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #7- Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
How it Connects:Students can see demonstrations of how Helen learned that everything has a name by her teacher running water over her hands and spelling the word water in her other hand to make that connection. Can also use images of braille to see what she would have used and maybe bring in braille charts for students to have a physical sense of what it is like to use.
3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) she, mother, father 2) pantry 3) mischievous
How Children Use Book: Individually and Small Group
Meets Needs: Dyslexic students can use this to relate in the ways that Helen struggled to read and had to learn in braille but worked hard to be successful (windows and mirrors)

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