Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1

"Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1" makes learning to sign fun and easy, providing the building blocks to help you master your comprehension of American Sign Language (ASL) at the beginner level. Using a whole-body approach to signing, you'll learn to convey context and meaning on a dynamic level involving both facial expressions and HandShapes. The book begins by teaching you 10 facial expressions, 16 unique HandShapes, and signs to convey time, space, and location. You'll then be introduced to the revolutionary "Pick and Say Rubric" that incorporates 90 vocabulary words with a sentence pattern. Each part of the sentence is assigned a color—red for time, green for nouns, and blue for actions. The rubric makes learning proper sentence structure fun and engaging, and simple sentences can be built upon with the addition of individual vocabulary words. "Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1" is filled with full-color photographs that illustrate proper HandShapes formation, and an accompanying DVD that demonstrates the correct way to form words and sentences, making learning to sign simple and enjoyable.

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Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1

"Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1" makes learning to sign fun and easy, providing the building blocks to help you master your comprehension of American Sign Language (ASL) at the beginner level. Using a whole-body approach to signing, you'll learn to convey context and meaning on a dynamic level involving both facial expressions and HandShapes. The book begins by teaching you 10 facial expressions, 16 unique HandShapes, and signs to convey time, space, and location. You'll then be introduced to the revolutionary "Pick and Say Rubric" that incorporates 90 vocabulary words with a sentence pattern. Each part of the sentence is assigned a color—red for time, green for nouns, and blue for actions. The rubric makes learning proper sentence structure fun and engaging, and simple sentences can be built upon with the addition of individual vocabulary words. "Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1" is filled with full-color photographs that illustrate proper HandShapes formation, and an accompanying DVD that demonstrates the correct way to form words and sentences, making learning to sign simple and enjoyable.

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Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1

Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1

Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1

Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1

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"Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1" makes learning to sign fun and easy, providing the building blocks to help you master your comprehension of American Sign Language (ASL) at the beginner level. Using a whole-body approach to signing, you'll learn to convey context and meaning on a dynamic level involving both facial expressions and HandShapes. The book begins by teaching you 10 facial expressions, 16 unique HandShapes, and signs to convey time, space, and location. You'll then be introduced to the revolutionary "Pick and Say Rubric" that incorporates 90 vocabulary words with a sentence pattern. Each part of the sentence is assigned a color—red for time, green for nouns, and blue for actions. The rubric makes learning proper sentence structure fun and engaging, and simple sentences can be built upon with the addition of individual vocabulary words. "Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1" is filled with full-color photographs that illustrate proper HandShapes formation, and an accompanying DVD that demonstrates the correct way to form words and sentences, making learning to sign simple and enjoyable.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781598636642
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Publication date: 01/01/2008
Series: Picture Yourself
Sold by: CENGAGE LEARNING
Format: eBook
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Has been teaching ASL at NYU for over 15 years and other ASL credits include Montclair State University, Lehman College, Catholic Charities in Brooklyn, LaGuardia Community College and the College of New Rochelle. She was born Deaf in Council Bluffs and attended the Iowa School for the Deaf. Her job with NY State is to rehabilitate Deaf clients via education and employment. Her ASL website is http://HardcoreASL.com

David W. Boles has authored three other books for Course Technology PTR: Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language,Level 1; Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard; and Google Apps Administrator Guide. David is the author of several blogs that deal with technology and the mind-body meme, including Urban Semiotic.com, RelationShaping.com, and WordPunk.com. David has also been teaching for over 16 years. He has taught American Sign Language at New York University; Public Health at University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey; English and Literary Criticism at Fordham University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Saint Peter's College, and the College of New Rochelle; and Drama and Speech at Rutgers University, NJIT, and Columbia University. He can be visited online at www.BolesBooks.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction (8 pages)
Semiotic Teaching
How This Books Learns Chapter 2 - What is Deaf Culture? (10 pages)
Cultural Norms
Tapping
Lights
Signing Issues Chapter 3 - 10 Facial Expression (24 pages)
Frown
Surprise
Angry
Etc... Chapter 4 - 10 HandShapes (26 pages)
The "Claw"
The "S"
The "A"
Etc... Chapter 5 - Learning Space/Time/Location (28 pages)
Him/Her
There
Here
Over-There
Etc... Chapter 6 - Time (Starters) RED (30 pages)
See Example Below for some of the 20 signs Chapter 7 - Nouns (Middles) GREEN (30 pages)
See Example Below for some of the 20 signs Chapter 8 - Actions (Ends) BLUE - (30 pages)
See Example Below for some of the 20 signs Chapter 9 - Picking and Saying (Rubric) - (12 pages)
Image rubric for creating sentences Chapter 10 - Creating Complex Sentences (Rubric) (12 pages)
A more complex image rubric for creating compound sentences Chapter 11 - Signing From Here On Up (10 pages)
The Next Level
Modifiers
Context Analysis
How to Learn
How to Practice
Putting the Learning into Practice
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