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Disability Theme Unit

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Reading Comprehensions - Special Education High Interest Reading
     What Is a Disability? (Hi/Lo Grades 3-4)
     The MDA Carnival Package Arrives (Hi/Lo Grades 3-4)
     Dream Catcher - The Life of Ernie Pepion (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     The Backwards Letters (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     A Painful Decision (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     Ripples of Giving - The Eagle Mount Story (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     The Letter (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     The Hidden Problem (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Part 1 (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Part 2 (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Part 3 (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     Vision Quest, Part 1 (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     Vision Quest, Part 2 (Hi/Lo Grades 3-5)
     Being Deaf (Hi/Lo Grades 4-5)

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Short Reading Comprehensions
Very Quick Readers
     What Is Braille? (Very Quick Reader; Grades 2-4 Readability)
     What Is a Prosthesis? (Very Quick Reader; Grades 6-8 Readability)

Short Readers
     What Is a Hearing Aid? (Short Reader; Grade 4-6 Readability)

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Reading Comprehensions
Fiction
     My Brother Is in a Wheelchair! (Grades 1-2)
     Jen's Journal (Grades 2-3)
     The New Girl (Grades 2-3)
     Alice's Spring (Grades 2-4)
     Taylor Finds Her Smile (Grades 3-5)
     Working Together, Part 1 (Grades 3-5)
     Working Together, Part 2 (Grades 3-5)
     Asperger's Syndrome (Grades 5-6)
     Second Chances, Part 1 (Grades 5-6)
     Second Chances, Part 2 (Grades 5-6)

Non-Fiction
     Clear Talk (Grades 2-3)
     Chris Burke - A Success Story (Grades 4-6)
     Down Syndrome (Grades 5-6)
     Blind Doctor (Grades 5-6)
     A World in Black, White, and Gray (Grades 5-7)
     What Is LD? (Grades 6-8)
     An Average School for an LD Student (Grades 6-8)
     Gift of Horses (Grades 7-8)
     Polio and FDR's Disability (Grades 8-9)
     Special Olympics (Grades 9-12)
     Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Grades 9-12)

Spanish
     Hablar claro (grades 2-6)

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Read and Color

Jenna Uses a Wheelchair (PDF file)

Chris Can't Hear (PDF file)

Disabilities Theme: A Special Dog (PDF file)

Buddy, the First American Seeing Eye Dog

A Very Special Child: Down Syndrome

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Play
     The Girl in the Wheelchair (A Play; Grades 3-4)

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Finish the Story
     The Big Wheel Is in a Wheelchair (Grades 3-6)
     A New Day, a New Life (Grades 4-6)
     I Got It (Grades 6-8)

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Book Units
    Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Grades 4-6)
    My Name is Brian (Grades 4-6)
    Things That Are (Grades 4-6)
    Feathers (Grades 4-7)
    Rules (Grades 4-7)
    The Story of My Life (Grades 9-12)

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Conversations - Foreign Languages
     The Chain of Hope - French and English

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Special Education Theme Units

			Life Skills
			Social Skills
			Special Education Science
			Special Education United States History
			Special Education High Interest Reading Comprehensions
			More Reading Comprehensions Holidays, Themes, and Mixed Special Education

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