Adapted Literature Selection: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This retelling of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper reads at an automated readability index of grade 4/5.

Classic literature doesn’t have to be scary, boring, or too hard.

Summary sites online and those little yellow and black notebooks are no longer your only choices for students who are struggling. Universally designed texts preserve the storytelling…while taking away the confusing word choices and hard-to-navigate formatting.

Universally Designed texts take classic literature common to secondary ELA classrooms and rewrite them with words and style that are easier for ALL students to read. Fewer frustrated kids. Fewer heads down on the desk. Less refusal. Less acting out. More engagement. More confidence. Better understanding.

Your purchase includes three variations on this easier-to-read text that you may print for students or share digitally on the non-public platform of your choice. Variations include:

• A text-only copy
  
• A text copy with a blank, lined column on each page for teacher-customized or open-ended note-taking
  
• A text copy with a lined column and inference-based questions on each page for guided note-taking

SECD Lesson: E2E Cola Can Precipitating Factors

Ever shaken up a can of cola, then had the misfortune to open it soon afterwards? The human psyche is a bit like that cola can…often, the thing that sets us off is merely the culmination of a series of upsetting events.

This 50-minute, hands on lesson gets adolescents thinking about their own precipitating factors for emotional dysregulation, as well as how to head off “explosions,” using readily available supplies.

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