LANGUAGE & LITERACY
Top 10 Tips for Teaching ASL in a Virtual Setting with Early Intervention Families
This resource from the SKI-HI Deaf Mentors, ASL Connect and The Learning Center for the Deaf Parent Infant Program, provides tips for teaching ASL in a virtual setting.
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind’s Top Ten ASL/English Bilingual Strategies
From the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, this video discusses what research identifies as best practices in implementing bilingual strategies in the classroom.
Literacy Strategies for Deaf Children at Home and School Webinar
This webinar from CSD discusses literacy strategies that be used in school and at home for students who are deaf.
Student Guided Research Projects
Writing with students is very challenging. In this video, ASDB itinerant teacher Cassandra Hart explains how to make a project that children are interested in, and that will help take them through the writing process from beginning to end in a way that helps them to learn and to grow.
Hall of Fame: Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field
A fascinating cross-section of heroes and pioneers who not only shaped our rich history, philosophy, knowledge, and skills but also give insights into current and future challenges for blind and visually impaired people. The featured inductees shared their personal lives and showed strategies to ensure that services for blind persons remain unique and specialized.
Technology to Encourage Language and Literacy
As technology continues to advance, it changes how we view literacy. Literacy expression is not limited to pen, paper, and books because technology advancements have opened more doors and changed our ability to create and express ourselves.
Educational Interpreting Series, Program #1G: A Mother’s Perspective on the IEP Process
Two certified interpreters provide separate interpretations to demonstrate how to interpret vocabulary and emotional content commonly expressed by parents.
Close Reading: An Instructional Strategy for Conquering Complex Text
This captioned video shows a 3rd grade teacher guide students through the close reading process, check for understanding, and leverage the power of student talk and collaboration to help them make meaning of a complex text.
Retelling: An Intervention to Promote the Literacy Achievement for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
This captioned webinar explains why retelling is an effective intervention for building comprehension and describes how to organize a classroom or itinerant setting to effectively use the retelling routine.
Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading
This report identifies writing practices found to be effective in helping students increase their reading skills and comprehension and provides examples of what these writing practices can look like within a classroom.
Reading/Comprehension Intervention: Guided Notes
Guided Notes promote active engagement during lecture or independent reading, provide full and accurate notes for use as a study guide, and help students to identify the most important information covered.
Reading Interventions for Comprehension, Text Analysis, Cause and Effect, and Text Analysis
This document from the Florida Center for Reading Research contains six intervention activities for the literacy areas of comprehension, text analysis, and cause and effect.
Centers Idea: Sight Word Memory Game
Sight Words Memory is the standard memory card game — sometimes called the Concentration — with the additional element of having the student read or sign the word on each card as they turn it over. This provides a lot of opportunities for repetition in sight reading, word memory and spelling.
Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards Crosswalked with the ASL Standards – 6th Grade
This document provides a comparison between Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards and the new ASL Content Standards.
Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards Crosswalked with the ASL Standards – 5th Grade
This document provides a comparison between Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards and the new ASL Content Standards.
Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards Crosswalked with the ASL Standards – 4th Grade
This document provides a comparison between Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards and the new ASL Content Standards.
Prefix-Suffix-Root List by Grade Level- 1st Grade Through 9th Grade
This list provides the definition and examples of common prefixes and suffixes that students should know at each grade level. This can assist students in decoding words.
100 Most Frequently Misspelled Words Across Eight Grade Levels
Did you know that about 300 words account for more than half the words students misspell in their writing from grades 1-8?
Reading and Mapping Strategies from Gallaudet
From Gallaudet, here are some strategies to use while reading to help understand and retain information. Their webpage has included mapping strategies, since these can be used in either the writing or the reading process.
Literacy Strategies to Support Intensifying Interventions
The National Center on Intensive Interventions provides a series of reading lessons to support special education instructors, reading interventionists, and others working with students who struggle with reading.