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-- Signing Exact English.
A reference book for teachers.
Now one of the most beloved of all folktales is available in a new Signed English edition lavishly illustrated in full color. Little Red Riding Hood presents a vivacious version of this favorite story that will intrigue and delight children. Along with the story illustrations, line drawings show the characters and a narrator signing the words in Signed English, a system that uses signs from American Sign Language (ASL) in English grammatical order.Children will associate the signs in Little Red Riding Hood with matching vocabulary, and the correct word order repeated in Signed English will reinforce their grasp and retention of English-language skills. When the story is read aloud while being signed, deaf and hard of hearing children also can identify lip and mouth shapes of spoken words represented by familiar ASL signs.Teachers and parents will relish the new Little Red Riding Hood for the excellent learning opportunity it will afford their children.
Presents well-known Mother Goose rhymes accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word in the poems.
Basic picture of hand signs for understanding to all.
Details ways parents can set goals for their deaf children and describes the signing options available.
Lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's ability to understand and interpret spoken communication.
Non-Aboriginal material.
Now the tale of King Midas and his golden touch is charmingly retold with full-color illustrations and key sentences shown in American Sign Language (ASL). The line drawings of the storyteller (who appears in both the book and videotape) recreate 44 key sentences in ASL, making the new King Midas ideal for helping both hearing and deaf children to learn better reading skills. The King Midas videotape shows the entire classic story performed in ASL by the storyteller accompanied by a voice-over, including practice sentences from the book. A perfect complement to the book, the videotape further encourages the development of language skills while also providing an entertaining means to experience the full beauty and elegance of ASL and Deaf culture.