This is a multimedia project my partner, Hannah Skaff, and I created together. One of our faculty mentors plans to use this project in the future when teaching her class on diversity in literature. In the hyperdoc embedded below, you will find:
- Why we need this books in our classrooms
- Why the representation of characters with disabilities is important
- Resources for finding books about characters with disabilities
- Resources for evaluating books about characters with disabilities
- Annotated bibliography and chart of all books used in our project
- What teachers need to know about teaching books about characters with disabilities
- Implications for classroom teachers
- Our recommendations for classroom teachers
- Big ideas from our research
- Discussion of one picture book from our study
- Discussion of one young adult novel from our study
- Additional links to our final papers and final poster
- References