BHS ASL Instructional Guide

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Yes/No Questions

• Cardinal number formation (palm orientation & movement) • Commands • Pronouns • Parameters

Culture: •

Backchanneling - Listener feedback

• Explain why we have a voice-off environment • Explain the importance of eye contact in the target culture • Ask for a sign in culturally appropriate manner • Maintains clear sight lines • Variations in signing styles • Deaf farewell rituals • Deaf status • Greetings for people that they don’t know in the target culture • Negotiating a Signing Environment • Cultural Connection - Getting Attention

https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

Skill Building

● Use a variety of visuals to define meaning of words and phrases ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Use Total Physical Response to review new vocabulary ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice signing. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Model conversational sign language. ● Students look at a picture , identify the conversation that is most likely to happen and explain their reasoning. ● Have students provide extended responses/more details ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation in ASL aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who are ready for more challenging dialog. ● Have students recognize and sign the new vocabulary. ● Make a resource list for fast finishers – sentence frames, sign Language review vocabulary resources. ● Students sign a conversation.

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