| Description |
ix, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 218) and index. |
| Contents |
American manual alphabet -- Manual numbers -- Just do it! Activity signs -- Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! Animal signs -- When you grow up: Career signs -- Roses are red, violets are blue: Color signs -- Stylin': Clothing and fashion signs -- Mad, sad, and glad: Feeling signs -- Time to eat! Food signs -- Feeling good: health signs -- Celebrate! Holiday signs -- Home sweet home: Home signs -- How much? How many? Measurement signs -- Get going! Movement signs -- Out and about: Outdoor signs -- It's party time! Party signs -- Family and friends: People signs -- Here and there: Place signs -- Let's play: Play signs -- Scared stiff: Scary signs -- Is it recess yet? School signs -- Let's go shopping: Shopping signs -- Let's go! Travel signs -- Extra fun signs -- Sign language games and activities -- Glossary -- Resources -- Index. |
| Summary |
Here's a great book for every young adult age 11 up, Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities. Signing is visual, easy to learn, and fun to use. Author Penny Warner offers 441 useful signs on a variety of favorite topics: activities, animals, fashion, food, holidays, home, outdoors, parties, people, places, play, emotions, school, shopping, travel, plus extra fun signs for especially popular words. Each chapter includes practice sentences using everyday phrases to help new signers learn in a fun way. Signing Fun provides dozens of entertaining games and activities, too, such as Alphabet Sign, Finger Fun Gesture Guess, Match Signs, Mime and Sign, Oppo-Sign, Picture Hand, Secret Sign, Sign-A-Gories, Signo Bingo, Snap and Sign, and Truth or Sign. It also features a list of tips on how to sign, including how to fingerspell, use numbers, and communicate with deaf people. Whimsical drawings clearly illustrate all of the signs, and a full index lists all of their English meanings for quick reference. Signing Fun is a terrific first book for learning sign while having a great time. |
| Language |
Includes English words and their sign language equivalents; the sign system represented is American Sign Language. |
| Subject |
American Sign Language -- Juvenile literature.
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American Sign Language -- Vocabulary -- Juvenile literature.
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American Sign Language -- Conversation and phrase books -- Juvenile literature.
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American Sign Language.
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American Sign Language -- Vocabulary.
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American Sign Language -- Conversation and phrase books.
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| Added Author |
Gray, Paula, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
1563682923 hardcover |
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9781563682926 hardcover |
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1451703090 paperback |
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9781451703092 paperback |
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