Product Overview
This monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 4 Passages (one per week) for copywork/dictation
- Lessons on grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, literary devices & literary analysis
- Boomerang Planner and Skills Tracker
- Weekly Reading Guide
- Beyond the Passage and Inside Scoop boxes
- Discussion Questions
- Family Book Club Party Ideas
- Guidelines explaining copywork & dictation practices
Note
As Alice Wong makes plain in the introduction to Disability Visibility (Adapted for
Young Adults), “Whether you are disabled or not, some of the ideas and words
may be new or uncomfortable for you, and that is the point!” We encourage you,
the parent, to preread the anthology to decide how this book might fit into your
family’s vision and values and to be prepared to explore its ideas with your teen.
This collection was selected and edited from the essays found in the original
book, Disability Visibility—which offers more essays and covers more mature
content. Older teens may enjoy comparing and contrasting the editorial
changes made to the selections in this young readers edition. (See “Adapted
for Young Readers” in Week Four for more on this topic.)
About the Book
Disability Visibility (adapted for young readers)
The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people...
