Celebrate Women’s History Month with the voices of amazing women!

she spoke cover    she spoke too cover

When the world tells you to stay quiet, do you listen, or do you speak up? Read about 14 inspiring women in each of these books and then, with the touch of a button readers can hear their voices!  Find out more about the She Spoke series here.

Educator and Librarian Resources:

Word searches:

Speak Up! Listen Up!: Using She Spoke in the Classroom at Pencil Tips: Writing Workshop Strategies from Children’s Authors and Illustrators

She Spoke video storytime at KidTime StoryTime

She Spoke Playlist – Listen, read, and be inspired with our girl power playlist on Spotify!

She Spoke Pinterest board – More links, clips, and recordings of the amazing women profiled in the book and more heroines you should know.

Interviews with the authors:

SHE SPOKE TOO is a Notable Social Studies Trade Book!

SHE SPOKE TOO was selected for the Notable Social Studies Trade Books 2025 list! The Notable Social Studies Trade Book Awards are an annual project of the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) running since 1972. This award list features K-12 annotated titles published in the previous calendar year that are exceptional books for use in social studies classrooms, selected by social studies educators.

Photo of SHE SPOKE TOO with a gold medal. AWARD-WINNING BOOK.

Librarian and Teacher Resources for NITA’S FOOD SIGNS

I’m so excited to share with you these resources for using Nita’s Food Signs in the classroom or storytime!

Nita’s Food Signs Teacher/Librarian Guide (printable .pdf)

 

Video Demonstration of the Signs in the Book:

 

Nita’s Food Signs Storytime with Author Kathy MacMillan (in Spoken English with Closed Captions)

Nita’s Food Signs Storytime with Author Kathy MacMillan (in American Sign Language)

 

More Resources for Signing with Young Children:

Little Hands Signing Storytime & Craft Ideas

Little Hands and Big Hands: Children and Adults Signing Together

Resources for Signing with Babies and Young Children

Resources for Signing in Storytime or the Classroom

Resources for Educators and Librarians

Picture Books about ASL and Deaf Culture

NITA’S FOOD SIGNS now available!

Nita's Food Signs cover

“Fun and informative from cover to cover, “Nita’s Food Signs: An Interactive ASL Board Book” is an ideal interactive board book introduction to American Sign Language and unreservedly recommended for family, daycare center, preschool, and community library Board Book collections for children ages 1-3.” – Andrea Kay, Midwest Book Review

Order Nita’s Food Signs now! Autographed copies from the Deaf Camps, Inc. Online Bookstore |  Bookshop.org  |  Amazon.com  |  BarnesAndNoble.com  |  Familius.com

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Hear This!: Use That Microphone, Already

photo of a microphoneIt happens again and again: a speaker is asked to use a microphone, and they say, “Oh, I don’t need it. I have a [teacher/pastor/camp counselor/fill-in-the-blank supposedly loud profession] voice.”  (I even had a clergy member at my own parent’s funeral try to pull this!)

But guess what? It has nothing to do with how loud you (supposedly) are, and everything to do with your audience’s comfort and access. Some people can hear high sounds, some low, and some need you to use the microphone to help drown out background noise. And just because people can hear you when you shout “Can you hear me?” at the top of your voice, that doesn’t mean that they can comfortably listen to you for five or ten or sixty minutes when your voice, tone, and pitch go up and down in the course of normal speaking.

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