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Here is a resource for stories told in ASL: ASL Tales.

From the website: ASL Tales is whole new way of approaching story books. The stories are not translated from the English or from the ASL, rather new and old stories were written by native users of both languages working together to create stories that honor both languages’ expressive strong points.

Parents, enjoy these stories with your children!  Teachers of young children, use these in your classrooms! Children of all ages - ENJOY these stories, told in American Sign Language.

Visit the website:www.asltales.net.

oral   oral   oral

dark night   cold night
teacher put me on stage made me talk
My name is Donnie!  I am six years old!
show parents i good voice   everybody clap smile clap smile clap smile
i ask teacher jimmy and michael my best friends on stage
teacher say no no no  you more smart  you better
jimmy and michael stone deaf  i hard of hearing
simmering rage  shivering night

dark night   cold night
teacher feather front my mouth say "P" "T" "F"
my hand teacher throat i feel "M" "N" "ahhhh"
teacher say no no no no everyday
no no no pronounce this way  no no no pronounce that way 
no no no
simmering rage  shivering night

dark night   cold night
jimmy and michael  my best friends
they can't talk they stone deaf
we invent sign language we talk
we talk talk talk
teacher see talk our hands
teacher say no no no no  teacher slap hands 
shame on you shame on you  shame on you
simmering rage  shivering night

dark night   cold night
patio i lay down look sky
many many many stars
which star better for deaf people
which star better for me
many many many stars  maybe i go one star
i very happy   we very happy
earth wrong place  wrong place  you know EAR th
wrong place   wrong place  wrong place
simmering rage  shivering night

Author: Donald Rosenkjar

Feel free to enjoy the creativity of Deaf artists available online. Note: If it is available online, you will see a link.

• Deaf Performing Artists Network (DPAN): Waiting on the World to Change
• Poem: Thoughts of a Deaf Child, by Stephen I. Bellitz
• Poem: Let the Children See and Sign, by LaRonda Zupp, an original poem created for the Deaf child