Resources for Celebration and Awareness

Each learning period, we offer new and exciting resources for celebration and awareness for all our learners.  Here you will find the latest resources for LP4.  Use these as additions to your literature and social studies curriculum.

Family Learning Resource: Just Ask!

This book features many different children sharing about how their disability impacts their lives. The differences highlighted are expressed as something matter-of-fact about each child while also affirming what they can do rather than focusing on what they cannot do. Bright, joyful illustrations accompany this affirming look at diverse kids with various kinds of disabilities.

• Look at the reading guide for before, during, and after reading questions you can discuss with your family.

• Listen to the Read Aloud together.

• Discuss the after-reading questions.

• Have everyone complete either the younger or older learner reflection.

• Learn more about history-makers with disabilities by listening to selected episodes of the podcast “Whose Amazing Life.”

  • The Activist

  • The Genius

  • The Rebel

Older Learners Resource (5-12): Show Me A Sign 

This book, set in 1805, tells the fictional story of Mary who lives in the actual community of Chilmark, in Martha’s Vineyard, where about a quarter of the population is deaf and almost everyone communicates in Sign Language on Martha’s Vineyard. As learners read her story they will learn about the experiences of Deaf people, early American settlers, and how they all related with the Wampanoag.

• Watch the author’s book introduction

• Listen to the audiobook on Epic, while completing the discussion questions in the guide.

• Complete interdisciplinary after-reading activities.

• Use this guide for links to the text, audio, and review questions.