Having lesson plans on Lessons in Sign Writing incorporated into Sign Language classes would be very good. One learns by doing what is being taught in class.<br><br>If one goes through verbs (walk, run, dance, eat, shout, applause) and has them written as well as signed, then some of the writing is imparted by immersion, but one will always need a lesson plan so that as one starts with the basics (handshapes, directions, movement), it is step-by-step what one is using in class.<br><br><br><br><b><i>Valerie Sutton <sutton@signwriting.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> SignWriting List<br>October 2, 2007<br><br>Dear SW List members!<br>Recently I have had several questions from teachers wondering how to <br>teach SignWriting in their school...They have asked for "course <br>outlines". I actually do not have a course outline for teaching <br>SignWriting as a
separate subject...I just follow the Lessons in <br>SignWriting textbook format...<br><br>http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/<br><br>But that is the OLD way of teaching...<br><br>I would like to suggest a NEW approach as well as the old way...<br><br>Maybe it is time to start using SignWriting as a part of Sign <br>Language classes, without necessarily having a separate course in <br>SignWriting?...<br><br>Of course there is nothing wrong with a separate course in <br>SignWriting! But separating it as a separate subject can confuse the <br>students too...<br><br>When we learn French or Spanish in school, we learn to speak French <br>or Spanish in class, and we also learn to read it and possibly write <br>it in class too...all in the SAME class...<br><br>So when you are teaching Sign Language courses, provide the students <br>with the signs they are learning in class, written in SignWriting on <br>paper, which they can take home with them, to study
with...<br><br>So although SignWriting can be taught as a separate subject, I am <br>suggesting that it might be best to just use it during classes where <br>students are using Sign Language...we write complete books in Sign <br>Language now, in SignWriting...so what is really needed is more <br>reading material in the Sign Languages of the world...<br><br>This week and I am putting a book together using SignBank DocumentMaker:<br><br>SignBank<br>http://www.SignBank.org<br><br>...it is the ASL Bible, Chapters 1-7...a very large document!<br><br>I hope different religions will also start writing translations of <br>their religious texts into SignWriting too...<br><br>After the book I am working on right now, I will do the layout for <br>Cat in the Hat and Sleeping Beauty...so we are slowly getting <br>literature to read...<br><br>Many thanks to all of the writiers!<br><br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L
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