Come Sign With Us: Sign Language Activities for Children - Softcover

Hafer, Jan; Wilson, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563680513 ISBN 13: 9781563680519

Publisher: Gallaudet University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Here is a fully illustrated activities manual for teaching children sign language. Come Sign With Us features more than 300 line drawings of adults and children signing familiar words, phrases, and sentences using American Sign Language (ASL) signs in English word order.
Each of the twenty lively lessons introduces ten selected target vocabulary words in a format familiar and exciting to children. Used in conjunction with reading and grammar studies, sign language can improve vocabulary retention and reading comprehension.
All signs have equivalent words listed in English and Spanish as well. Come Sign With Us shows exactly how to form each sign, and offers a variety of follow-up activities and practice signing in realistic situations.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Robert M. Wilson is a Professor of Education and Director of the Reading Center at the University of Maryland.

Review:

Come Sign Witb Us offers a clean, direct approach to sign language instruction for non-deaf students. The language described in this presentation is Pidgin Sign English (PSE); this particular version of sign language is quite appropriate as an introductory language for basic communication. The illustrations of the signs are large, providing for easy replication of the sign by the reader. In addition, thesigns are translated into both English and Spanish. Lessons are organized around readers' acquisition of words associated with various everyday topics. The goals of each lesson are clearly presented, and each lesson comes equipped with a variety of appropriate activities. Approximately ten target words are included in each of the books 20 lessons. One of the most interesting and beneficial aspects of this book are the "Facts about deafness" vignettes, which appear in each of the lessons. .Valuable information is imparted regarding deafness and hearing loss; such information is common knowledge in the deaf community, but such information will provide valuable insight for the (presumably non-deaf) readers into some of the physiological and cultural issues which confront the deaf.Come Sign Witb Us should prove to be a valuable tool both for use in classroom (to introduce "hearing" youngsters to sign language), as well as for parents who are interested in exposing their hearing children to the language and culture of the deaf. -- From Independent Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1563680513
• ISBN 13: 9781563680519
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 156