Teaching how to ask for a sign and how to respond when asked for a sign

1. Asking for a Sign

2. How to Complete
your Homework
Step 1: Read
through/watch/interact with
each slide in the presentation.
Make sure to watch all
corresponding videos.
Step 3: Complete the
comprehension quiz on
canvas.

3. Homework Objectives:
Key Skills You Will Practice
Pointing
Drawing
Listing
Opposites
Describing / Pantomiming

4. ASKing for a SIGN:
+ Fingerspelling should be used in ASL solely for
proper nouns and for lexicalized fingerspelling.
+ Fingerspelling is NOT a replacement for signing.
So what do you do, if you don’t know
how to sign a concept???

5. ASKing for a SIGN:
DO NOT RELY on FINGERSPELLING English
BUT WHY?
For example what if you fingerspelled:
“mean”
That English term has so many “meanings” such as:
See how using fingerspelling is confusing?
ASL is NOT English, so each meaning
of that English word has a different
sign.

6. Conversation Strategy
Asking What is the Sign
As you learn ASL, you might forget some signs or
need to use signs other than those taught in class.
To ask for a sign you’ve forgotten or don’t know, use
the phrase below and the following strategies.

7. Asking What is the Sign:
1. Point to an object
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8. Asking What is the Sign:
2. Draw a Picture
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9. Asking What is the Sign:
3. List Things in a Category
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10. Asking What is the Sign:
4. Use Opposites
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11. Asking What is the Sign:
5. Describe or Pantomime
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12. Sign along with the video of the teacher asking for a sign -
Pointing
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13. Sign along with the video of the teacher asking for a sign -
Drawing a Picture
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14. Sign along with the video of the teacher asking for a sign -
Listing a Category
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15. Sign along with the video of the teacher asking for a sign -
Giving the Opposite
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16. Sign along with the video of the teacher asking for a sign -
Gestures/Pantomiming
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17. Part 2: Then what??
Key Skills to Respond to a
Request for a Sign
Give the Sign
Respond that you don’t know the sign
Respond that you’ve forgotten the sign
Respond that you think you know the sign
and then give the sign
Ask for clarification

18. Responses:
1. Give Sign
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19. Responses:
2. Tell You Don’t Know
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20. Responses:
3. Tell that you Forgot
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21. Responses:
4. Tell that you “think” you
know the sign and then give
sign
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22. Responses:
5. Ask for Clarification
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23. Sign along with the video of the teacher responding - Give
the Sign
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24. Sign along with the video of the teacher responding - Forgot
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25. Sign along with the video of the teacher responding - Don’t
Know
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26. Sign along with the video of the teacher responding - Ask for
Clarification
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27. A Little Advice: