Signing Resources and Ideas

Sign of the Week – Cookie

Here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Cookie Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/cookie(1).mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print in color or black-and-white and adjust the print size according to your needs.) Signing Time Volume 3 – Everyday Signs Alex, Leah, and host Rachel Coleman teach ASL signs for the things you see, do and experience every day. Created for ages 1-8 but enjoyed by all! Available only on DVD. Close-Captioned. Approximate run time: 30 minutes, plus special features. Everyday Signs includes the following …

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Having Fun with Animal Signs

The learning aspect of sign language has been well covered in the white paper: Signing With Babies and Children. From cognitive development to language acquisition and early literacy skills, signing offers great ways to support your baby right up through the elementary years. But what good is all that learning without some fun? We here at Signing Time believe that children should be able to wiggle and giggle their way right through learning, and that’s just what we strive to support. Three of our best videos for learning through play are  included in the Signing Time Animal Signs DVD Set: Volumes 7 – 9. In …

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Sign of the Week – Again

It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Again Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/again.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print in color or black-and-white and adjust the print size according to your needs. This week’s sign comes from: Baby Signing Time Volume 3 – A New Day Created specifically for babies as young as 3 months old up to 3 years, yet fun for the whole family! Features host Rachel Coleman, along with animated Baby Alex, Baby Leah, and Baby Hopkins. Baby Signing …

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“Daddy, I love you.”

One of our Instructors shared this incredible story about Jeffrey Wright, a high school science teacher who used sign language to connect with his son who was born with a condition that prevents him from speaking. Each year, Jeffrey delivers a lecture about his son as a way of talking to his students about the meaning of life. Read the excerpt from the New York Times article below or watch this video filmed by one of Jeff’s former students. We like how when Jeff asks Adam to make the sign for “music,” he signs Signing Time! 🙂 We think you’ll …

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Sign of the Week – Strawberry

It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Strawberry Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/strawberry.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print in color or black-and-white and adjust the print size according to your needs.) This week’s sign comes from: Vol. 6: My Favorite Things – DVD Alex, Leah, their frog Hopkins, and host Rachel Coleman teach ASL signs for fruits, vegetables, colors of the rainbow, and activities. Toddler likes to eat vegetables now!Review by Ana I got this DVD and at the beginning my …

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Sign of the Week – “P”

It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: the Letter “P” Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/P.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print in color or black-and-white and adjust the print size according to your needs.) This weeks sign comes from: Volume 5 – ABC Signs Alex, Leah, their frog Hopkins, and host Rachel Coleman teach the alphabet in American Sign Language. Created for ages 1-8 but enjoyed by all! Available only on DVD. Close-Captioned. Approximate run time: 30 minutes, plus special features. ABC …

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January Hand-y Craft: Signing Time Story Books

Create your own Signing Time Story Signing and reading go hand in hand. This month, you and your child can choose pictures from the PDF books below. Order the pictures, then caption them to tell a story. Color your pages and put them in a report cover to make your own Signing Time book! Read your story together at bedtime. See related article: Ready to Read, Ready to Write: How signing can boost early literacy Download directions Download Book PDF 1 Download Book PDF 2 Download other Signing Time Hand-y Crafts   Signing Time Teacher Resources Story Time DVD Early Literacy …

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