Vancouver School Board
York Region District School Board
Peel District School Board
New Frontiers School Board
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Project Folio

Title

Developing American Sign Language Identity Texts

Collaborators

Kristin Snoddon

Schools

E.C. Drury Provincial School for the Deaf

Languages

American Sign Language

Grades

2, 3 and 5

Last Modified

November 26, 2006

Description

This project is based on the Ontario provincial schools' American Sign Language (ASL) curriculum for Deaf students. Teachers brought ASL storytellers into the classroom. The storytellers helped to create a rich first-language and culture environment where students learned about older Deaf adults' history and experiences. Students in turn developed their own ASL identity texts and were guided through the ASL storytelling process by their teachers.

Studies

American Sign Language Identity Texts

This paper describes an exploratory study at the Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf, Milton, Ontario, that comprises part of Early and Cummins' (2002) cross-Canada project From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Designing Learning Environments for Knowledge Generation within the New Economy.Focusing on the production of American Sign Language (ASL)...
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