Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- culturally appropriate ways to greet and take leave in a Deaf culture.
- ways to tell someone their name.
- certain words and simple phrases in ASL.
Skills
Students are able to:
- sign basic words using correct parameters.
- recognize simple words and phrases that have been taught.
- fingerspell their own name.
- recognize when a classmate is fingerspelling their name.
- sign HELLO and GOODBYE in ASL.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
- the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
- other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
