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Sign Language Tools for the Classroom

5 Clock Hours Early Childhood Education Training
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Make it Fun!

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​Teaching a new language to children is not unlike teaching any other concept. Sign language especially can be included in so many fun ways! Play based learning is a great opportunity to introduce new signs and give children more practice using the signs. Children learn so much through play and exploration that it is natural to include a new language in their play. Designing games and allowing it to happen naturally during play are equally important and beneficial.
​Language is inherently social and helps children express their wants, needs, and feeling with others. This in turn helps them understand themselves even further. Including social games and interaction along with new vocabulary words (in the child’s native or newly learned language) strengthens the connections made for learning. This helps children acquire the language faster and in correct context. 
The most successful way to teach a child anything is to make it an experience. Whether the child is involved in a sign language game during circle time or is practicing signs during pretend play they are developing their language skills. Making signing fun also makes it productive and tends to make the information “stick” in the mind better. Add this to the rapid rate at which children are acquiring knowledge about everything around them and you have a great recipe for teaching sign language!
The video below includes a great list of sign language games to play and adapt for play in your program. Some are intended for older children, while others involve younger or newer signers. Consider options for adapting these games for your group and how these ideas may benefit them.
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Optional Resources for Further Study

  • ​Teaching Young Children to Sign by Signing Savvy 
  • Teaching Hearing Children to Communicate with Sign Language by Signing Time
  • Ways to Introduce Your Kids to Foreign Languages by Grace Hwang Lynch for PBS Parents
  • How can young children best learn languages? By Tracey Chapelton for The Voices Magazine as part of the British Council
  • 7 Foreign Language Vocabulary Games to Banish Boredom from Your Classes by Fluent U Educator Blog
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1. Course Agenda
​2. Sign Language Introduction Video
3. ASL Video Discussion
4. Deaf Culture and Community
5. Cultural Influences on Language
6. Video Protecting Deaf Culture
7. Discussion Deaf Culture
8. Hand Shapes
9. Facial Expressions and Body Language
10. Signed Alphabet 
11. Discussion: Facial Expressions
12. Occupations with and without the Agent Marker
13. Basic Signs
14. Color Signs
15. Days of the Week
16. People Signs
17. Place Signs
18. Animal Signs
19. Food Signs
20. Feeling Signs
21. School Signs
22. Basic Signs
​23. Discussion: Signs in the Classroom
24. Check for Understanding
25. Where to Begin when Teaching Signs
26. Signs by Age
27. Older Children Signs
28. Classroom Management
29. Make it Fun!
30. Discussion: Make it Fun!
31. Sign Language Quiz #1
32. Sign Language Quiz #2
33. Sign Language Quiz #3
34. Sign Language Quiz #4
35. Sign Language Quiz #5
36. Evaluation Form​
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  • Child Care Courses
    • About ECE Virtual Classroom
    • ECE Virtual Facilitators
    • Course Requirements
    • Course Instructions
    • Certificates
    • ECE Virtual Classroom
  • Select Course
    • Relationships with Families
    • Social and Emotional Development
    • Sign Language Tools for the Classroom
    • Building Community Through Circle Time
    • Easing Separation Anxiety
    • Family Activity Nights
    • Interactions and Guidance
    • Mildred D. Taylor and Cultural Awareness
    • Operation Military Families
    • Reinforcement and Redirection
    • School age Play
    • Social and Emotional Development
    • Spanish in the Early Childhood Classroom
    • Supporting Families with Special Needs
    • Supporting Self-Esteem
    • Teaching Self Expression
    • The Anxious Child
    • ​Using Literature to Support Diverse Families
    • Yoga for Young Children
  • Contact
  • Enroll in Courses