Online Adapted Literature & Lessons
The Sherlock Center is committed to helping students with complex disabilities to participate in the general curriculum. As resources permit, the Sherlock Center creates adapted versions of popular literature for use by students, teachers and families. For questions, email Kristen Cyr.
These resources are searchable in the fields below. You can search by keyword or title in the “Search All Adapted Literature and Lessons” box or you can search by resource type, format, grade level and/or file type. Items are listed alphabetically.
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Key
CVICortical Visual Impairment
These materials have a black background and are created for students with cortical visual impairments who need resources with minimal movement, reduced color complexity and images with minimal details.
VIVisual Impairment
These resources have a black background and are created for students with a visual impairment who need high-contrast, focused images that convey story concepts.
BKBook
These stories or lessons are presented as simply-stated text with picture symbols.
GDExtended Literacy Guide
These materials provide ideas for using book-specific objects to help with learning and engagement of complex learners.
INTInteractive
These materials present the book in simply-stated text with picture symbols in an interactive manner.
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Literature
The Day the Crayons Quit
by Drew Daywalt
PreK-2 Grade LevelGeneral Resources
BK PDF 1.36 MB
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Literature
The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anne Frank
6-12 Grade Level -
Literature
The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allen Poe
6+ Grade LevelGeneral Resources
BK PDF 1.35 MB
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Lesson
The Food Chain
by Sherlock Center
All Grade Levels -
Literature
The Fox and the Hound
by Daniel Mannix
PreK-2 Grade LevelGeneral Resources
BK PDF 1.96 MB
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Literature
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
by Cynthia DeFelice
4-6 Grade Level -
Literature
The Gingerbread Boy
by Paul Galdone
PreK-2 Grade Level -
Literature
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
6-12 Grade Level -
Literature
The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
4-6 Grade Level -
Literature
The Grand Escape
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4-6 Grade LevelGeneral Resources
BK PDF 14.9 MB
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Literature
The Holiday Handwriting School
by Robin Pulver
PreK-2 Grade LevelGeneral Resources
BK PDF 1.91 MB