Indicators (key learnings)
Standard: A
Benchmark Stage 4:
3rd grade
Content/Culture
function
Conversational
- Key
Strategies
Vocabulary
self
colors
numbers
school
classroom
manners
animals
foods
clothes
family
opposites
transportation
time
feelings/emotions
house
weather
Grammar
greet and
respond to
greetings
correct and
confirm
information
yes/no questions
introduce and
respond to
introductions
open and close
conversation
non-manual
signals
attention-getting
indexing
pronouns
ask questions
respond to
questions
makes and
responds to
requests
wh-questions
commands
receptive skills
turn-taking skills time-signals
interactive
introductions
Context
Interactive
activities
Simple sign and
two sign
sentences
Asking simple
questions
Visual/picture
cards
Informal
introductions
directional verbs
Informal making
activities/sports
Holidays
Sizes,shapes,
patterns
express likes and
dislikes
assertive
responses
expressing wants negative
responses
describing
expressive skills
objects
asking questions
telling where
objects are
negative
statements
eye gaze
requests
more whquestions
Partnership
dialogues
agent markers
Use classifiers for
drawing
display classifiers pictures/designs
possessive
pronouns
Cultural Information: Name Signs for ASL instructor, teacher, assistant and
principal AND students
Attention getting behaviors
Technology: Communication devices
Sample Lesson Plan Unit 4
-
(Use Vista’s Signing Naturally format)
Stage 4: 3rd Grade
“Animals”
Time Length: 25 minutes twice/wk
Duration:
2 weeks
Function:
Grammar:
Ask questions
Respond to questions
describing objects
telling where objects are
Use classifiers to describe objects.
Possessive pronouns
Acting-out gestures
Vocabulary:
animals,
deer
monkey
rooster
cat
giraffe
snake
wolf
pets
little
favorite
duck
bird
cow
pig
mouse
tiger
fish
sheep
farm
strong
Materials:
dog
rabbit
chicken
horse
elephant
frog
lion
racoon
big
zoo
Guess Game: Animals
(color, size, pet, farm, zoo?)
Guess Game: finding objects
Number cards: 1- 20 & 21-30
Game: Lotto: Animals
Bingo/lotto: 1-20
Vocabulary Race
“Around the World” with
animals flash cards
ASL storytelling: 3 Bears
& 3 Little Pigs
Book: “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,
What do you see?”
Conversational Strategies: (culture note)
Acting out like animals with face expressions shown
Asking questions, giving assertive/negative responses.
Name Signs given to the students
Sample Dialogue:
Brown, very-small, farm, what animal? Guess!
Grey, big, strong, zoo, not pet, what animal? Guess!
Animal, what your favorite?
Dog, cat, which you favorite?
Farm, what animal there?