About Martin Luther King Jr. - Adapted Book (PDF) / Black History Month

Looking for an interactive activity to teach your students about historical figures and heroes during Black History Month. This fun adapted book shares facts about important people throughout history while using real life pictures. Adapted books are perfect for your emergent readers, English Language Learners and are especially useful for student with autism and other special education needs.

This adapted book was created for students of all ages but geared towards students with disabilities in the middle school or high school level. I created this for my students because most adapted books I found were too easy or not age appropriate.

How to use:

Interactive adapted books are a great addition to your guided, shared, or independent reading activities, can also be used in your literacy centers.

Students will enjoy looking at the colorful graphics throughout the book. Each page includes picture supported text with one interactive sentence frame. Students select a picture from the picture bank to complete the sentence frame on each page of the book. Additionally, students will be able to match text of vocabulary words.

Comprehension questions are based on the reading and visuals are provided for student’s response.

Please take a look at the preview to see the full product to ensure this meets your needs prior to purchasing this book.

Use adaptive books to: *Increase comprehension through pictures *Improve student engagement *Review important vocabulary *Increase receptive language skills *Increase motivation *Work with emergent readers *Work with non-readers

This resource can be used as

1. a file folder activity.

2. a set of worksheets.

3. a set of re-useable worksheets when you laminate each sheet.

Adapted Book (or Social Stories) will help teach students learn using visual and text representations while increasing independence. It includes class read aloud about historical figure, comprehension questions, vocabulary look up and more.

To increase or decrease difficulty for students, increase or decrease withhold visuals and have students match the vocabulary words first throughout the reading. To decrease level of difficulty, provide students with visuals only and make this adapted book a matching activity.

What components are included? -Martin Luther King Jr. Day Adapted Book -Cut and Paste visuals and text for students to follow along while reading -Comprehension questions

-Word Search What will your students need? -glue -pencils -scissors

- laminate adapted book (optional) Copyright © NaturallyZen All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only. Not for public display. If you have any questions about this resource, please contact me at mrivas8@schools.nyc.gov