Adapted books are custom-made so that students who have different mental or physical challenges can be able to use them. Adapted books help students to participate in targetting and reading different language skills. They are created in such a way that they are motivating and interactive. Students feel part of the adapted book they are reading because they are supposed to move or add pieces in the book. This is a brief overview of what adapted books are and why it is important to use them.
Because different adapted books have different skills sets they can be used by learners with various levels of literacy skills. For instance, some adapted books are repetitive so that they increase repetition and participation in a student to assist them to grasp new information. These adapted books have pictures associated with the vocabulary terms so they provide visual support to help students to know the verbal message. Skill set levels on these adapted books do not increase on the pictures they on the word levels.
Other adapted books require the students to match the bugs onto the correct school supply items with the pictures provided at the bottom of the page. This may not sound difficult but it is for students who have low function abilities. As a result, using this adapted one must target many language skills. Students should participate in the book, and be able to tell different pictures as well as understand the audio message. The student should be able to turn the page and name different items as well as point the pictures related to the words on that page.
There are adapted books which require the student to get the right color item and place it on the book. The book what is the snowman wearing is one where the student is expected to find the snowman and match them in description. The student can be encouraged to point the text box each time you verbalize the words and you will find eventually they can also utter the words. Adapted books are repetitive in nature meaning the students can verbalize the books topic with you.
Other adapted books have number concepts where the student is expected to point the right number of an item such that it matches a description. One example is the book what is on the grill where the student should show what is on the grill and match the right food item.
Lastly, prepositional concepts is the other kind of adapted target books. This one requires the learner to place the targeted item on the correct location. Prepositional concepts purpose on building vocabulary skills which are not easy for students.