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(Learning English in Early Childhood Education - ASL-English Bilingual School)
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(California School for the Deaf)
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(Writing English in PreSchool (3 years old)
Drawing - Scribbling - Forming letters or letter-like symbols)
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A bird!
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(One of the first things the children learn to write is their name)
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(Fingerspelling) N... N...
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(Deaf bilingual children bridge their knowledge of signed words, and fingerspelled letters, to writing in English)
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Bug
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(Fingerspelling) B-U-G
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(Fingerspelling) B
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(Fingerspelling) U
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(Fingerspelling) G
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(Writing in preKindergarten (4 years old)
Writing their full names - Writing familiar names (Mom, dad, siblings, classmates)
- Writing high-frequency words (Dog, cat, bus, see, love)
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(Interactive writing is a powerful instructional strategy for literacy development)
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Good morning
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You see the exclamation mark?
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What does this mean?
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GOOD MORNING!
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(Without intonation) Does this mean
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(Without intonation) good morning?
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Is that what this means?
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GOOD MORNING!
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O!
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And then A!
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(spoken) O A
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Tuesday.
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Oh, Tuesday
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What does this need?
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Wait, what does this need?
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Tuesday.
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Oh, T!
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Yes, a big t or a small t?
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Big T.
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(What do you like? Dogs or cats?)
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Which do you like?
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Do you prefer dogs?
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Or do you prefer cats?
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(CAT - CAT)
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(CAT - CAT - CAT)
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(Dogs)
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Cats and dogs, both of them.
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You can write this in two ways.
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C-A-T-S A-N-D D-O-G-S
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or
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B-O-T-H, this means both.
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Which do you prefer?
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I prefer C-A-T D-O-G
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OK, Tthat's fine
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(Cats and Do)
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(Fingerspelling) G (writing) g
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(Writing Skills in Kindergarten (5 years old
Bridging ASL skills to writing English - Telling a story using simple sentences using sight words - Transcribing ASL sentences to English sentences)
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You said, "I sleep," right?
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Yes.
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(writes "I") This means I.
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I.
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(writes "sleep") What does this mean?
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Sleep.
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(I sleep Monster comes in)
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(I slee-
walks in)
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(Early Childhood Education
California School for the Deaf
www.cdseagles.com )