[CALIBK12] DD/Autistic Middle School Books

[Jo Avery]

I have been working with our developmentally disabled class for three or four years now and I love the opportunity.  I do a lot of what I did when I worked with primary grade students.  We have a small picture book collection and I have tried to have plenty of books like the Dorling titles that are very visual as they often want to check those out.  Cars and horses are the kind of thing they often enjoy.  But they love picture books.  In the past I have read them the picture book nominees for California Young Reader Medal and they have voted for their favorites.  Spend some time with the teacher finding out what units she will be teaching and get easy materials to suplement them.  We have done apples, holidays, health, we've danced to the Philadelpia Chickens.  They just love being read to and so do the adults and student aids who accompany them so I choose literature that I will enjoy sharing.

I just learned that some of our students can read at a first or second grade level so I'm very interested in hearing suggestions for more materials because while we have picture books, we don't have many easy readers. Hope you'll share.

Regards,

Jo Avery, Librarian
El Dorado High School
661 Canal Street
Placerville, CA 95630
http://cougar.eduhsd.k12.ca.us/Library/index.html


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[mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu]On Behalf Of Kelly Sunderman
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:23 AM
To: CAlibk12
Subject: [CALIBK12] DD/Autistic Middle School Books


I'm very excited to be starting a library program with my middle
school's DD (Developmentally Disabled) and Autism (SUCSESS is the
acronym--not sure what it stands for) classes.  The focus will be on
library/information literacy skills, and  I'm trying to supplement our
existing collection with books that will appeal to the special needs of
these kids.  Their reading levels range from non-readers to grade 3/4
reading level.  Their emotional ages are also all over the map.

I'm wondering if anyone else has worked with a similar population, and
how you've tackled the challenge of finding reading material that will
be developmentally AND reading level appropriate.

Thanks!

~Kelly

Kelly Sunderman
Library/Media Teacher
Lakeside Middle School
3  Lemongrass
Irvine, CA 92604
(949) 936-6115

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