Jessica Tate
Helen Keller Text Set
A Show Of Hands by Mary Beth Sullivan and Linda Bourke
This book about sign language gives insight into the lives of the hearing impaired and teaches how to hear thigns without using your ears. Each word or phrase in this book has a vivid picture to go along with each sign, for example Count Dracula’s character is used to teach how to count in sign language.
ASL Tales; The Prince and The Pea by Alicita Rodriguez
This is the tale of The Prince and the Pea just like I learned when I was a kid, but along with the text there are pictures of hands signing the words too. This could spark excitement about sign language to students and maybe encourage them to learn a whole story in sign language.
Helen Keller A Light for the Blind by Kathleen Kudlinski
This text is a chapter book that is right at the fourth grade reading level. It tells the amazing story of Helen Keller’s life, focusing on her childhood. Children can relate this story to themselves as they were growing up and think about the obstacles they had to face. It is a biography that children can follow along and not get bored along the way.
Helen Keller A Rebellious Spirit by Laurie Lawlor
This is a more complex text that tells the biography of Helen Keller’s life up until she passed away. As a young child Helen was very mischievous and bold in her actions. She often got frustrated when she was young learning to communicate with the outside world.
As she grew up and became an adult she traveled around the world sharing her story and helping other people with disabilities like her own, including War veterans from many different countries. This text would be used for the more advanced readers in a fourth grade setting.
Helen Keller A Photographic Biography by Leslie Garrett
This book is also about Helen Keller’s biography, but throughout the book there are many real photos of Helen, people she met along the way, like Alexander Graham Bell, and places she has been. It is set up like a timeline with many dates that correspond to historical events. Helen Keller lived through the turn of the century and saw the world change before her eyes.
Helen Keller by Carolyn Sloan
This is an easy to read chapter book about the biography of Helen Keller that is mainly just text and not too many pictures. This book allows students to create the images in their own mind. After reading this book a teacher could show the students real pictures of
Helen Keller to connect an image to the story.

Jessica Tate
Helen Keller by Cynthia Klingel and Robert B. Noyed
This is a lower level book about Helen Keller’s biography. For struggling readers this book could enable them to learn the main idea behind Helen Keller’s biography without stumbling over too many words and trying to fit sentences together. Each page has about two sentences in bold print, but if a student were to be in a class discussion about Helen
Keller they would still be able to contribute in a group where other students had read a more difficult book.
Little Red Riding Hood by Harry Bornstein and Karen L. Saulnier
This is a good picture book about the traditional tale of Red Riding Hood and the Big
Bad Wolf. The difference from most traditional tales is that this one provides pictures of hands signing the text throughout the whole book. Students can get excited about sign language from a book like this and maybe even learn how to tell the story in sign language.
A Fun and Easy Guide to American Sign Language For Kids by Lora Heller
This book teaches the signs of words from family, to days of the week to the five senses.
It shows pictures of real kids doing the sign language which can make it easier to imitate.
There are one sentence descriptions under each picture to describe the motions you make when you sign a particular word. This book is good to show practical everyday uses of sign language.
You can Learn Sign Language! More Than 300 hundred Words in Pictures by Jackie Kramer
This book about ASL is a good introduction to sign language. Each page is full of real pictures of objects, people and places with the sign for each word. If a student can learn the words in this book they would have a good foundation of learning to communicate through sign language.