How Do Teachers of Deaf Pre-Readers Communicating in American Sign Language Select Storybooks for Read-Alouds?

Teachers of the d/Deaf (TODs) struggle to select appropriate storybooks for elementary-aged Deaf pre-readers who use American Sign Language (Hayes & Shaw, 1994). Hayes and Shaw (1994) created a book selection system for TODs, but their methodology was difficult to evaluate. The purpose of the present research was to create an empirically derived book selection system using a sorting task methodology that has been successfully adapted for creating book selection systems (Schwarz et al.