<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 28, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 28, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Natasha Escalada-Westland wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">I was wondering how many teacher of ASL as a second language are using Sign Writing in their classrooms? I've been teaching ASL for 10 years, and have decided to add it as a regular part of teaching ASL in my high school classes this year. I wanted to get feedback from others who might be doing this. Thanks!</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>-----</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Natasha!</div><div>I was so delighted to visit this web page to see SignWriting mentioned there:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.westlandasl.com/" target="_blank">www.westlandasl.com</a></span></blockquote><br></div><div>It is an attractive web site. If you need help with the SignWriting part of it, we will be glad to help you...</div><div><br></div><div>I am so happy to learn that you plan to use SignWriting as a part of teaching ASL. Reading and writing a language is an important part of learning a language, and can help new students remember what they learn in class.</div><div><br></div><div>We have more written American Sign Language literature now...which means you will have more reading materials for your students ...I am creating a listing of all of the literature on the web, and I will post that shortly, so you can download documents to use as reading material in class...or just visit the ASL Literature Puddle:</div><div><br></div><div>ASL Literature Puddle</div><div><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle</a></div><div><br></div><div>I do not know how many teachers use SignWriting as a part of their ASL classes. I hope more will follow your lead!</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div></div></body></html>