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Michele Lewis Date: Sun Nov 1, 1998 3:26 pm Subject: A few questons/comments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yes Valerie, I am alive out here! I just finished completing Web Report #2 and I thought I would post a couple of questions/comments to the list. My kids are starting to get the hang of reading Sign Writing now that I have shifted my focus from teaching them the individual parts of the signs to teaching them the sign as a whole. The flashcards helped me figure this out. They had no problem remembering the signs when I used the flashcards. I think that the Goldilocks Book 1 confused them. They are doing better with Book 2 with the signs presented in sentence form and not broken down. When I teach them a new sign, I do point out the individual parts to show but I am not drilling them on the invidual parts. Basically, I am teaching them to read the signs not compose them. Is there any plans for teacher lesson plans to be published? I think that daily lessons plans written by an experienced Sign Writer teacher would be VERY helpful to us out ehre who are still learning Sign Writing ourselves! Is there a release date yet on the Windows version of the Sign Writing Computer Program. DOS and I do not get along very well :) I think that I will be able to devote more time to Sign Writing now. I am at the point that I no longer instruct the children in ASL. We just converse and we pause to learn new words or I will correct a grammar error. The have an extensive vocabulary and can hand;e routine, day-to-day conversations. Valerie, do you think that Sign Writing will catch on to the point that it is taught in residential schools to children? Gee, I just re-read my e-mail and I see that it jumps from topic to topic! Y'all will have to forgive me, my brain is fried from handling 4 small children all day! Excuse me while I go change a diaper :) Michele Lewis Plant City, FL Homeschooling mother of four children Kelly age 6 (1st grade level) Kaitlyn age 5 (1st grade level) Kristin age 2 (learning her numbers and ABC's. She can sign about 20 words) Jimmy age 14 months (he is exempt from school!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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