ASK Angie ASL – Reading Tips

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Reading Tips

“Reading with good comprehension requires the ability to think beyond the text. True comprehension occurs when the reader can connect the related schema in his brain to the sentence. The Deaf student who does not have full access and practice to incidental English does not know the English hierarchy of classifying, categorizing and group membership of common words. This has an impact on reading that starts at the early stages of literacy development.”(Kristin Di Perri – The Bedrock Approach)

Your Homework assignment:

Provide explicit direction in the areas of Superordinate and subordinate nouns with our deaf students / children.  Make a trip to the grocery store an educational experience by using the sections of the supermarket as our Superordinate groupings. Discuss the different types of “meats” and the different between the fruits and vegetables.

Here are some Superordinate Category Ideas:

As always, if you have any questions you can email me @: [email protected]

Resources:

ADCOHearing.com – Specializing in Products for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

Harris communications.com – equipment and products designed for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

HandCraftEdASL.com – any of my products are great for hearing and deaf children / siblings.

Rule-the-School.com – deaf education products

Angie Craft author and teacher brings over 26 years of experience in deaf education and is committed to serving the deaf community. Keenly aware of the isolation that deaf students often experience, Angie developed and wrote HandCraftEdASL to bridge the communication gap between deaf children who primarily use American Sign Language and their parents, peers or educators.  www.handcraftedasl.com

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This post originally appeared on our January/February 2014 Magazine