Finally she signed a tiny heart, and this time she affirmed it, nodding her head. Add relevant description. Regardless of whether it is a character, object, or setting, use description before or after the sign or fingerspelled name. This visual information, sometimes easily rendered through accompanying illustrations, can help children conceptualize the events of the story. Use a variety of classifiers.
Classifiers are handshapes that represent nouns and incorporate aspects of adverbs and verbs.
When Billy Seago, in Village Stew, describes a man walking with a bucket balanced in each hand, he shifts signs and classifiers quickly. First he uses the 1-classifier, illustrating a single man walking. Then he uses upside down 1-classifiers, one on each hand, to signify the man's legs as he walks, and finally he uses mime to show the man's arms straining with the weight of the buckets in each hand. Don't be bound by the sequence of sentences in the text. Stories should be signed in the way that makes the most sense visually.