Adapted Stories List for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities – Updated 11-5-2012
To request a copy of these adapted stories/poems you must:
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Have a legally purchased edition of the book by the author listed (not a photo copy).
* Public Domain titles do not require a copy of the book.
Use it for educational purposes only.
Use it with students who are print impaired.
When you receive the CD, the envelope and CD must be attached to the inside cover of the book.
(Where the CD goes, the book must follow!)
You cannot make copies nor sell these items to anyone.
Copying this CD or using it for non-educational purposes may constitute copyright infringement and
may be punishable under federal law.
Send an e-mail to Jerry Amerson: jamerson@doe.k12.ga.us and include the following sentences:
I own or have in my possession the following books by the original authors that I am requesting on CD.
I agree to not copy or redistribute the CDs
Include the book titles you are requesting.
Include your complete mailing address as the CDs will be sent through the US Postal Service.
Many adapted story CDs will also contain supplemental materials. Please note that .bm2 file
extensions require Boardmaker software; .pxw files require Pixwriter software; .wid files require
Writing with Symbols software.
In order to best utilize our resources and be able to distribute CDs to all teachers, we
do ask that you target the books that you plan to use during the year rather than order
all the titles you have at once. Please prioritize and limit your request to no more than
5 CDs at a time. Thank you for your consideration of this request.
K-2 Elementary Level Adapted Stories:
Autumn Leaves (Gail Saunders-Smith)
Big Red Tub (Julia Jarman & Adrian Reynolds)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Bill Martin, Jr. & Eric Carle)
Clifford Makes a Friend (Norman Bridwell)
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Eileen Christelow)
Gingerbread Baby (Jan Brett)
Go Away, Big Green Monster (Ed Emberley)
Going Home (Eve Bunting)
Good Night Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)
Goodnight, Gorilla (Peggy Rathmann)
Harcourt Reader Selections (Grades 1, 2 & 3)
Have You Seen My Cat? (Eric Carle)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Laura Joffe Numeroff)
Adapted Stories List for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities – Updated 11-5-2012
In the Big Bag (Juan Daniel Lopez – A Scott Foresman Leveled Reader)
Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm (Joy Cowley)
OH! (Kevin Henkes & Laura Dronzek)
P.J. Funnybunny Camps Out (Marilyn Sadler)
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Bill Martin, Jr. & Eric Carle)
So Say the Little Monkeys (Nancy Van Laan & Yumi Heo)
Spring (Gail Saunders-Smith)
Stone Soup (Retold by Kayse Harshaw - *Public Domain)
The Gingerbread Man (Pictures by Karen Schmidt)
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow (Shirley Neitzel)
The Mitten (Jan Brett)
The Napping House (Audrey Wood)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
Today is Monday (Eric Carle)
What Makes a Rainbow? (Betty Schwartz)
Where is Snowy’s Nose? (Kelly Asbury)
Lower/Upper Elementary Level Adapted Stories:
The Emperor’s New Clothes (Hans Christian Anderson -- *Public Domain)
The Great Kapok Tree (Lynne Cherry)
The Polar Express (Chris Van Allsburg)
The Recess Queen (Alexis O’Neill & Laura Huliska-Beith)
The Seashore Book (Charlotte Zolotow)
The Tree Farmer (Chuck Leavell & Nicholas Cravotta)
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All (Marilyn Burns)
Where the Sidewalk Ends Selected Poems (Shel Silverstein)
Upper Elementary Level Adapted Stories:
Alice in Wonderland (Louis Carroll – *Public Domain)
Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
George Washington (Pamela Hill Nettleton)
How to Eat Fried Worms (Thomas Rockwell)
Adapted Stories List for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities – Updated 11-5-2012
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Richard Atwater)
Sounder (William H. Armstrong)
Stone Fox (John Reynolds Gardiner)
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Beverly Cleary)
The Other Side (Jacqueline Woodson)
The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 (Christopher Paul Curtis)
Middle School Level Adapted Stories:
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens - *Public Domain)
Across Five Aprils A Civil War Story (Irene Hunt)
A Small White Scar (K.A. Nuzum)
Because of Winn Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)
Bridge to Terabithia (Catherine Paterson)
Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
How to Eat Fried Worms (Thomas Rockwell)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Megan’s Island (Willo Davis Roberts)
Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)
Sounder (William H. Armstrong)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The King of Mazy May (Jack London)
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Ransom of Red Chief (O. Henry - * Public Domain)
The Tree Farmer (Chuck Leavell & Nicholas Cravotta)
The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 (Christopher Paul Curtis)
High School Level Adapted Stories:
1984 (George Orwell)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Vern - *Public Domain)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens - *Public Domain)
Across Five Aprils A Civil War Story (Irene Hunt)
Adapted Stories List for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities – Updated 11-5-2012
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain--*Public Domain)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe - *Public Domain) – download from Resource Board website
A Small White Scar (K.A. Nuzum)
Casey at the Bat Poem (Ernest Lawrence Thayer - *Public Domain) – download from Resource
Board website
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson - *Public Domain)
Dracula (Bram Stoker - *Public Domain)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley - *Public Domain)
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain - *Public Domain)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare - *Public Domain)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo - *Public Domain) - download from Resource Board website
Of Mice & Men (John Steinbeck)
Old Man and The Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens - *Public Domain)
Rain, Rain, Go Away A Short Story (Isaac Asimov)
Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare - *Public Domain)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Interlopers (Saki – *Public Domain)
The Odyssey (Homer - *Public Domain)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane- *Public Domain)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne - *Public Domain)
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain -- *Public Domain)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson - *Public Domain)
Where the Sidewalk Ends Selected Poems (Shel Silverstein)