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🕹ASL Level 2, Activity 14-Games (Face-to-Face)

Description:

Students practice fingerspelling and receptive skills by working with a partner to build words. Students then play a game and work in teams to apply their knowledge of ASL vocabulary as well as fingerspelling signs they don’t know to learn more signs.

Products: Fingerspelling and Scattergories

Practices:  Listing a variety of vocabulary words from different categories, and interpreting fingerspelling

Perspectives:  How can one describe a forgotten sign without fingerspelling the word?

NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:

• Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations and correspondence in American Sign Language to provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
• Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in American Sign Language to an audience of viewers on a variety of topics.

Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:

• COMM 1: Interact with others in the target language and gain meaning from interactions in the target language.
• COMM 3: Utilize appropriate media to present an idea to an audience
• CONN 1: Build, reinforce, and expand knowledge of other disciplines while using the target language to develop critical thinking/creative problem solving skills.

Can-Do Statements

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

• I can fingerspell words that follow a pattern
• I can communicate with others to express my ideas
• I can effectively communicate and work in a team setting

Materials Needed

• Google Slides
• Scattegories Cards
• Timer 

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• Scattegories Cards 

Materials Needed for Warm-Up

Chain Letter

• “START PARTNERS WILL”
• For example: A-P-P-L-E, E-G-G-P-L-A-N-T, T-A-C-O-S, S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y, etc.
• “TAKE TURNS FINGERSPELL ONLY ONE LETTER SWITCH CONTINUE WORDS MAKE” 
• Whoever added the last letter gets the point and the game will restart with a new word.
• You don’t need to follow a specific category when fingerspelling a word

If students feel the game is too easy, then we can introduce a category that they’ll need to follow

Main Activity

Materials Needed for Main Activity

• Scattergories Cards

Scattergories Game

• “NOW GAME PLAY 2 TEAMS WILL”
• “TAKE TURNS ONE PERSON BOTH TEAMS PLAY”
• “ME TOPIC GIVE. 1 MINUTE YOU THINK SIGNS WITH TOPIC” 
• Dog, Cat, Horse, Pig, etc
• Ex: Armadillo, Hedgehog, Porcupine, etc
• “TEAMS SIGNS SAME POINTS NONE”
• “SUMMER YOU PLANS HAVE?”
• “FUTURE SUMMER YOU CLASS HAVE?”
• “NEW SEMESTER YOU ASL LEARN ENJOY?”
• “FUTURE SEMESTER YOUR ASL TEARER WHO?”

Deaf Culture Notes

Fingerspelling is the baseline for understanding and communicating in sign language. Competitive games encourage the expansion of sign language and the use of signs outside of an individual’s daily vocabulary. Deaf people have a very wide vocabulary and only fingerspell when they have to, this makes conversations more quick and in-depth.

End of Lab:

• (Use thumbs up/ thumbs down or have them rate 1-5 on how they feel after the activity)
• Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
• Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!

Let's Chat! American Sign Language (ASL) Copyright © 2023 by Armilene Cabreros; Audra Dooley; Claire Oberg; Collin Dauenhauer; Delaney Obaldia; Emily Harrison; Amber Hoye; Emma Wilkinson; Gabi Jones; Izabelle Finner; Jacob Steele; Kate Maryon; Madison Mackey; Megan McAllister; Monica Potts; Rebecca Mulgrew; Robyn Holland; Samantha Showers; Sarra Foerster; Serena Krause; Sophia Orm; Tiana Gratiot; and Tori Fisher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License , except where otherwise noted.

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Meaning: The process of working through details of a problem to reach a solution.

Related signs: TROUBLESHOOTING .

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Alphabetical letters : It's useful for 1) a single-letter word (such as A, B, etc.) and 2) very short words (e.g. "to", "he", etc.) to narrow down the words and pages in the list.

For best result, enter a short word in the search box, then select the alphetical letter (and page number if needed), and click on the blue link.

Don't forget to click "All" back when you search another word with a different initial letter.

If you cannot find (perhaps overlook) a word but you can still see a list of links, then keep looking until the links disappear! Sharpening your eye or maybe refine your alphabetical index skill. :)

Add a Word : This dictionary is not exhaustive; ASL signs are constantly added to the dictionary. If you don't find a word/sign, you can send your request (only if a single link doesn't show in the result).

Videos : The first video may be NOT the answer you're looking for. There are several signs for different meanings, contexts, and/or variations. Browsing all the way down to the next search box is highly recommended.

Video speed : Signing too fast in the videos? See HELP in the footer.

ASL has its own grammar and structure in sentences that works differently from English. For plurals, verb inflections, word order, etc., learn grammar in the "ASL Learn" section. For search in the dictionary, use the present-time verbs and base words. If you look for "said", look up the word "say". Likewise, if you look for an adjective word, try the noun or vice versa. E.g. The ASL signs for French and France are the same. If you look for a plural word, use a singular word.

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