<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>October 9, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Andrée Gagnon from Canada wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><B style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; "><FONT size="5" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; ">And now I would like to learn more about SW curriculum. Do you have a Sign Writing curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12 for deaf children, not adults? <BR></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></B></P></DIV></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Unofficially I did try, back in 1998, to establish a relaxed-form of a curriculum...it was an attempt to standardize teaching the reading and writing of ASL in SignWriting...by creating books at different SignWriting Levels...including:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignWriting Level 1: Beginners</DIV><DIV>SignWriting Level 2: Basic</DIV><DIV>SignWriting Level 3: Intermediate</DIV><DIV>SignWriitng Level 4: Advanced</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignWriting had already been used in schools in Nicaragua, for example, back in 1996...So this development of SW Reading Levels, which I did in 1998, occurred AFTER James and Judy Shepard-Kegl established the Bluefields School in Nicaragua. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignWriting was taught in Denmark from 1982-1988 in schools for young Deaf children, and in Nicaragua since 1996, without any of these SW Reading Levels being a part of their experience.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The SW Reading Levels came about in 1998 with a new project I called the SignWriting Literacy Project, where teachers apply for the free books, and then I print the books and donate them to the classrooms...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The reason I tried to develop Reading Levels was because I could see that teachers in the US were not using SignWriting. Other countries were using it before my own native country. So I was trying to figure out a way to assist teachers to try SignWriting in their classrooms, by providing basic books at different levels, to help the teachers get going. I figured they would tell me later, if the Levels worked or not! Years later I was told that they seemed good...but of course more research needs to be done...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The original idea in 1998 was to create 4 SignWriting Level books for the following literature:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Goldilocks</DIV><DIV>Cinderella</DIV><DIV>Sleeping Beauty</DIV><DIV>Snow White</DIV><DIV>Humpty Dumpty</DIV><DIV>Tortoise and the Hare</DIV><DIV>Poem: One Harbor</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have all of these on videotape signed in ASL by native ASL Deaf signers, waiting for someone to transcribe them...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But instead, what happened is...I completed the four Levels of Goldilocks and that is all. We started Cinderella, but never finished all the Levels of Cinderella.... Oh well. I pray someday we can get to it. If there is anyone out there who would enjoy transcribing these videos I would love your help!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Until we get to it, I can donate copies of the four levels of Goldilocks to ANY teacher with Deaf students around the world, if they fill out the forms, and write a letter on school stationery, asking for the materials officially.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So Andree...if you know of teachers of the Deaf who want the donated materials, please ask them to go to these links, to fill out the forms to apply for the donated materials:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignWriting Literacy Project</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach001.html">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach001.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Letter of Confirmation on School Stationery</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach005.html">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach005.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Web Reports</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach002.html">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach002.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hope teachers from Canada will want to participate!!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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