| Content |
five parameters of ASL |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: five parameters |
Elaboration: handshape, movement, palm orientation, location, facial expression |
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| Content |
basic classifiers |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: classifiers |
Elaboration: handshapes that are typically used to show different “classes” of things, sizes, shapes, and movementbasic classifiers: CL:1, CL:2, CL:3, CL:B (modified) |
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| Content |
numbers and number system |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
manual alphabet |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
ASL as a natural language |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: natural language |
Elaboration: a language that has evolved naturally through use and repetition; a complete language on its own |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local cultural knowledge |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: ways of knowing |
Elaboration: e.g., First Nations, Métis, and Inuit; and/or gender-related, subject/discipline-specific, cultural, embodied, and intuitive |
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| Curricular Competency |
Describe similarities and differences between their own cultural practices
and those of the local Deaf community |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: similarities and differences |
Elaboration: for example, discussing cultural ways of being, D/deaf education |
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| Curricular Competency |
Engage in Deaf cultural experiences |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: Deaf cultural experiences |
Elaboration: e.g., technology, blogs, school visits (including virtual/online visits), conferences, plays, social media |
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| Curricular Competency |
Share information using the presentation format best suited to their own
and others' diverse abilities |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: presentation format |
Elaboration: e.g., digital, visual; aids such as charts, graphics, illustrations, music/percussion, photographs, videos, props, digital media |
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| Curricular Competency |
Seek clarification and verify meaning |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Seek clarification and verify |
Elaboration: Request or provide repetition, word substitution, reformulation, or reiteration. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Create alphabet and number stories |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: alphabet and number stories |
Elaboration: Alphabet stories use some of the letters of the alphabet (e.g. using a few consecutive letters, such as the letters of students’ names, or from the words for places or objects).Number stories use number signs in sequence to express a short story and can consist of a descriptive sentence or sequence of events. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Exchange ideas and information |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use a variety of strategies to increase understanding |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: strategies |
Elaboration: including context, prior knowledge, compound signs (e.g., breakfast = [eat+morning], parents = [mother+father], agree = [think+same])iconic signs that look like the intended meaning (e.g., eat, drink, sit, stand, sleep, book, door), including iconic similaritiessize, style, intensity, movement, location, and position of a signfacial expressionmouth morphemes |
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| Curricular Competency |
Comprehend key information and supporting details in stories and texts |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: key information |
Elaboration: to answer the questions, “Who?” “What?” “Where?” “When?” “Why?”, and “How?” |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize the relationships between common handshapes, location of signs, common facial expressions, variants in size, style, intensity of signs, and meaning |
American Sign Language (ASL) Introductory 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: relationships |
Elaboration: e.g., blind/doubt/Ireland, ugly/dry/summer |
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