Cath Smith
BSL SIGN & SPELL ABC Alphabet Book: British Sign Language & FINGERSPELLING
eBook
(Co-Sign Communications (inc DeafBooks) Jan. 15, 2016)
Learn to sign and read together with this wonderfully engaging booklet. •Full British Sign Language (BSL) Fingerspelling Alphabet letter by letter •Illustrated pictures (Widgit Software graphics)•Letters and Signs (Let's Sign BSL graphics) •Written descriptions for making the signs.First published on Kindle 2016, updated 2017 with written descriptions of the signs on the same page with each letter. Fingerspelling gives a direct link to the written word to support literacy.Tablets and touch-screen technology are an important way to engage new readers from key groups of young children where literacy is a concern.Research published by the National Literacy Trust and Pearson shows that technology is particularly beneficial in groups of children where literacy is a concern: poor children and boys – and that touch-screen technology can be more effective in engaging children aged 3 to 5 with reading than books.This booklet is in textbook fixed format – for kindle device or tablet and smart phone, Mac and PCs using the free Kindle reader apps. Learners will have access to built-in functions such as highlighting, a notebook, dictionary look-up and more. You can make notes, use multicolour highlighting - highlight a word on the screen to pull up windows for a dictionary, Wikipedia, and even translation plus the potential for flashcards.Ideal for encouraging all children to learn the basics and for introducing the topic of alternative communication systems and languages that can benefit children who are deaf or have special educational needs and use signs to support their communication.A Handshape Key and the Left-Handed Fingerspelling Alphabet are also included.Supported by the Let's Sign BSL Series of resources - www.DeafBooks.co.uk