Learning English in an ECE ASL-English Bilingual School

(Learning English in Early Childhood Education - ASL-English Bilingual School)

(California School for the Deaf)

(Writing English in PreSchool (3 years old)
Drawing - Scribbling - Forming letters or letter-like symbols)

A bird!

(One of the first things the children learn to write is their name)

(Fingerspelling) N... N...

(Deaf bilingual children bridge their knowledge of signed words, and fingerspelled letters, to writing in English)

Bug

(Fingerspelling) B-U-G

(Fingerspelling) B

(Fingerspelling) U

(Fingerspelling) G

(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)

(Interactive writing is a powerful instructional strategy for literacy development)

Good morning

You see the exclamation mark?

What does this mean?

GOOD MORNING!

(Without intonation) Does this mean

(Without intonation) good morning?

Is that what this means?

GOOD MORNING!

O!

And then A!

(spoken) O A

Tuesday.

Oh, Tuesday

What does this need?

Wait, what does this need?

Tuesday.

Oh, T!

Yes, a big t or a small t?

Big T.

(What do you like? Dogs or cats?)

Which do you like?

Do you prefer dogs?

Or do you prefer cats?

(CAT - CAT)

(CAT - CAT - CAT)

(Dogs)

Cats and dogs, both of them.

You can write this in two ways.

C-A-T-S A-N-D D-O-G-S

or

B-O-T-H, this means both.

Which do you prefer?

I prefer C-A-T D-O-G

OK, Tthat's fine

(Cats and Do)

(Fingerspelling) G (writing) g

(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)

You said, "I sleep," right?

Yes.

(writes "I") This means I.

I.

(writes "sleep") What does this mean?

Sleep.

(I sleep Monster comes in)

(I slee-
walks in)

(Early Childhood Education
California School for the Deaf
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