Everything is great until Olaf, disguised as Stephano, shows up to spoil everything. There are many opportunities for students to engage in repeated information as listen to the story of the Baudelaire orphans who go to live with their Uncle Monty. This is the second book in A Series of Unfortunate Events. The materials were designed to allow students with multiple levels of learning to access and engage in lessons learned through listening to this novel. This unit has various activities to accompany Snicket’s book, The Reptile Room. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS NOVEL UNIT IS FOR STUDENTS WITH SIGNIFICANT DISABILITIES AND ARE EITHER EMERGING OR NON-READERS The lesson of learning to sit while someone is talking is an invaluable skill that is worthwhile teaching. I was always reading a novel to my students, regardless of their learning level.

Have you ever wanted to read a novel to your special education students but thought, there is no way they will sit and listen? Persevere, it is worth it!! This 100+ page unit on the novel The Reptile Room is designed for students who have significant disabilities and special learning needs. (Sept.The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket is the focus of this novel unit for students with autism and special learning needs. Exquisitely detailed drawings of Gothic gargoyles and mischievous eyes echo the contents of this elegantly designed hardcover. Luckily for fans, the woes of the Baudelaires are far from over readers eager for more misfortune can turn to The Reptile Room, for an even more suspenseful tale. The peril in which he places the Baudelaires may be frightening (Count Olaf actually follows through on his threats of violence on several occasions), but the author paints the satire with such broad strokes that most readers will view it from a safe distance. The author uses formal, Latinate language and intrusive commentary to hilarious effect, even for readers unfamiliar with the literary conventions he parodies. But by using their individual gifts (Violet's for inventing, Klaus's for reading and researching and baby Sunny's for biting) the three enterprising children thwart the Count's plan-for now.

Poe (with a son, Edgar), ignores whatever the children have to say and their new guardian, Count Olaf, is determined to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune. From the first, things look unfortunate indeed for the trio: a fire destroys their home, killing their parents along with it the executor of their parents' estate, the obtuse Mr. ''If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.'' So cautions Snicket, the exceedingly well-mannered narrator of these two witty mock-gothic novels featuring the misadventures of 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and infant Sunny Baudelaire.

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