SW curriculum - test SW Literacy Project reading levels...

[Charles Butler]

Dear Andree,
   
  The entire writing system of Sign Writing can be taught in six weeks to anyone, so I'm not really sure that it can be divided equally in between various grade levels.  I've had kids between 6-8 reading everything I could write once they got the hang of it.  That, to me, is the beauty of sign writing, it is NOT like a spoken language in that some words are harder than others to pronounce.  Very basic words that are used all the time in everyday signing are fairly complicated and it would be next to impossible to isolate words that have "difficult" motions, from "easy" motions.  
   
  A sign like "finish" (in ASL), which uses two rotation hands, is one of the earliest signs they learn, so that language acquisition and SignWriting go hand-in-hand, unlike English with its ten thousand exceptional spellings.
   
    FINISH      "19"  "J"
  You can't even count to 20 without technically needing a hand rotation, nor spell the American manual alphabet.
   
  

Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM> wrote:
  SignWriting List  October 10, 2006
  

  
    On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Andrée Gagnon wrote:
  As the level of grades seems important for deaf children to acquire the symbol of rotation, my question is : should it be in grade 2 or in grade 3?  As far as  I am conserned I do not know. André Thibeault
  

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  Hello Andre!      Is there a teacher in your school, who would like to try SignWriting with young Deaf students? Is so, go to these web pages:
  

  SignWriting Teachers Forum
  http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teachers.html
  

  Learn About the SignWriting Literacy Project
  http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach001.html
  

  1. Write Teachers Report 1
  http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach002.html
  

  2. Write A Letter on School Letterhead
  http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/teach005.html
  

  

  Send Number 1 and 2 to me:
  

  Valerie Sutton
  SignWriting Literacy Project
  Center for Sutton Movement Writing
  P.O. Box 517, La Jolla, CA. 92038-0517, USA
  

  or email it to me:
  

  Sutton at SignWriting.org
  

  Then I can send you books and DVDs and software for the children in the classroom. Once you get them, you can see through experience what seems to work for Deaf children...I would welcome your feedback about the SignWriting Levels already published to see if they work for your classrooms...
  

  Val ;-)






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