A ten-year-old boy returns to his parents' apple farm for the holidays after his first term at a school for the deaf in Philadelphia.
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"An exuberant book that should do a lot to put across the natural feelings, and special circumstances, of deaf kids." Kirkus Reviews with Pointers
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Mary Riskind is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Company titles including: "Apple Is My Sign".
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Wonderful for deaf and hearing children to read,
This review is from: Apple Is My Sign (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books) (Paperback)
I read this book with my deaf 4th grade students. It was amazing. They loved this book. They all said it was their favorite book ever. They really don't like to read but this book was about them. It was a little bit difficult reading level wise, proably more appropriate for 5-6th graders. My students everyday begged to read more "apple." It is about a deaf boy in the early 1900s from a deaf family being sent to a school for the deaf for the first time. They learned history and deaf culuture through this book. The most amazing part was the dialogue is written in sign. It reads like ASL. That was wonderful. You really understood the culutural history of these people. I just wish there was more. There could be a whole series and my students would read everyone of them. Read it!
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This review is from: Apple Is My Sign (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books) (Paperback)
LOved the book. I love reading about children with disabilties and all they proof to the world that just because they are blind or such dosn't mean there less of a person.
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Harry picked at his plate of apple fritters and scrapple. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Harry picked at his plate of apple fritters and scrapple. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hearing boys Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Follow That Mom by Mary Riskind in Back Matter
- Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues (The Greenwood Press Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Series) by Cynthia Ann Bowman on page 52, and page 54
- Portraying Persons with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction for Children and Teenagers (Serving Special Needs Series) by Debra Robertson on page 15
- Losing Our Language:How Multic: How Multiculturalism Undermines Our Children's Ability to Read, Write and Reason by Sandra Stotsky in Back Matter
- Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason by Sandra Stotsky in Back Matter
- Reaching Out Through Reading: Service Learning Adventures with Literature by Carrie Sorby Duits on page 122
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