American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities
Penny Warner
Paula Gray, Illustrator
November 2006
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$23.95 (t) paperback, ebook
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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.
Penny Warner is a child development instructor and author of more than 40 books in Danville, CA.
Paperback
ISBN 978-1-56368-292-6
192 pages. 7 x 9. 952 illustrations, index.
$23.95 (t)
Ebook
ISBN 978-1-56368-501-9
$23.95