Learn to Sign the Fun Way: Let Your Fingers Do the Talking with Games, Puzzles, and Activities in American Sign Language

By Penny Warner

Book Overview

The perfect guide to signing for everyone!

Never before has learning to sign been so simple and so much fun! Whether you are a teacher or a parent, this lively self-guided book of American Sign Language (ASL) will quickly become your kids' new favorite teacher!

Learn to Sign the Fun Way goes beyond the manual alphabet and teaches the beautiful language of sign--the United States' fourth most pervasive language--in a simple, interactive format. Signers-to-be will discover:

-Great games to make learning ASL an entertaining adventure
-Activities for both the individual and the classroom
-Cool groups of signs that appeal esspecially to kids
-And much more!

Kids love to sign, whether it be to communicate with a hearing-impaired individual or as a "secret" language with their friends. With this illustrated book they'll quickly and easily become signing superstars! Inside are cool signs for kids, including:

-People signs
-Alphabet and numbers
-Animals
-Food and drinks
-Home signs
- Clothing
-Color
-Sports
-Activity signs
-Thoughts and feelings
-Action signs
-Body parts
-School talk
-Calendar signs
-Silly and fun signs

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761532633
• ISBN13: 9780761532637
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

too young

This is a great book for a 7th or 8th grader but too young for a 16 year old. The information about this book gives no age it will be suitable for. A nice book for the right age. I am returning it.

Great for Teaching!!

Illustrations are much clearer than in older sign language books. Signs are up-to-date, whereas a book like "The Joy of Signing" contains some antiquated signs. I very much enjoy teaching beginners sign language from this text. Very creative and fun!

Activity and Games

It is excellent sign language book with activity and games to be fun!

The Kids Like It

I teach ASL for high school foreign language credit. My students enjoy the games offered in this book. Good practice sentences for beginners.

Helpful Teacher's Tool

"Learn to Sign the Fun Way" is an exciting tool to use with non-Deaf children to help them understand the many concepts that are introduced within the book and in the variety of games that are rated fairly by "beginner, intermediate, and advanced."Highly recommended.