Shared story reading is a practice that has been used successfully to promote literacy skills for all students. The benefits of shared story reading are not exclusive to literacy instruction and should carry into other disciplines such as mathematics. Using shared story reading to teach mathematics concepts can play an important role in mathematics instruction because "many children's books present interesting problems and illustrate how other children solve them. Through these books students see mathematics in a different context while they use reading as a form of communication" (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989, p. 27). The work described in the article details the use of children's literature as a contextual springboard to meaningful mathematics lessons for students with moderate and severe disability. (Contains 3 tables and 4 figures.)