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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Nov 5, 1998 6:52 am Subject: Re: A few questons/comments | |
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Michele Lewis wrote: >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! _________ Hi Michele! Thank you for this excellent feedback. In regards to the teacher lesson plans.... in the past, people in other countries developed their own SignWriting materials to teach children, but here in the USA we never taught SignWriting officially to children before. I have only taught adults. I introduced SignWriting to a class of children for one hour once - other than that we have no experience. So that is the very reason why we started the project. Since this is the first semester of the SignWriting Literacy Project, you and the other participating teachers are the pioneers. The purpose of the project is to find out from your experiences what the lesson plans should be.... Perhaps you would like to write lesson plans based on your experiences? Even if it is a rough draft, that will help in the long run. Then later I can create a teacher's manual based on your combined feedback. I am glad to know the flashcards were so helpful - thank goodness I sent them to you! I would like to thank Diana Smith, at the Caldwell Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas, for suggesting the idea to me - I had not thought of flashcards myself - but as it turned out, they are invaluable. Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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