Harry Bornstein

Karen Luczak Saulnier

Presents the vocabulary of time in sequence while describing the usual happenings of a day from beginning to end accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word of the text.

The Clock Book

Now one of the most beloved of all folktales is available in a new Signed English edition lavishly illustrated in full color. Little Red Riding Hood presents a vivacious version of this favorite story that will intrigue and delight children. Along with the story illustrations, line drawings show the characters and a narrator signing the words in Signed English, a system that uses signs from American Sign Language (ASL) in English grammatical order.Children will associate the signs in Little Red Riding Hood with matching vocabulary, and the correct word order repeated in Signed English will reinforce their grasp and retention of English-language skills. When the story is read aloud while being signed, deaf and hard of hearing children also can identify lip and mouth shapes of spoken words represented by familiar ASL signs.Teachers and parents will relish the new Little Red Riding Hood for the excellent learning opportunity it will afford their children.

Told in Signed English

Little Red Riding Hood

The descriptions by the acknowledged designer, administrator, or scholar of each system ensures the highest accuracy and thoroughness, distinguishing Manual Communication as a significant, important resource. The first chapter recounts the history of sign language, particularly American Sign Language (ASL), including foreign influences and conflicts about its use. An overview follows, describing factors that affect manual communication, such as learner characteristics. Also, an analysis of a nationwide survey of teachers shows the results of their use of the various forms of manual communication in different settings.

Implications for Education

Manual Communication

Illustrates the signs for numbers one through ten, some colors, and simple objects.

Count and Color

Clement Clarke Moore

An adaptation of the original poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore.

Told in Signed English : an Adaptation of the Original Poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore

The Night Before Christmas

Distinguished by an enchanting text & superb full-color illustrations, this book also presents 277 LINE DRAWINGS that tell the story in Signed English.

The well-known tale about the little girl who wanders through the woods and disturbs the house of the three bears, accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word of the text.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Presents well-known Mother Goose rhymes accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word in the poems.

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