At this level, students' abilities to use ASL are still minimal. As they apply language-learning strategies such as using clues, connecting, and predicting, they experience success and gain confidence working with ASL materials. Invite a guest who is fluent in ASL to give the class a short presentation on his or her occupation.
Students can then prepare posters for the school based on the presentation.
Ask them to present the information, including the Internet addresses, using ASL in their presentations where applicable. Ask students to obtain information from family members about their school days, using only ASL, mime, and gesture to ask questons. Have students report back to the class on any difficulties they had. Linguistic requirements should be simple assessment for this organizer continues to emphasize the extent to which students successfully find and use the information required to complete specific tasks. Copyright 1999 All Rights Reserved.