Private: Games & Activities

Agreement Verbs for the Novice Learner: This packet is a great start to getting new ASL learners to understand the concept of agreement/directional verbs. Some people call these Agreement verbs others call them directional verbs and still others all them Inflected verbs, no matter what your name for this grammar concept, these activities will help guide you and your students through the learning process. Verbs focused on in this practice are: Pay, Ask, Send, Copy, Go to, Show, Give, Summon, Tell, Help and Look at. Most activities can change verbs to work with your lesson.

The packet includes activities for:

– Verb hot potato (potato not included)
– Verb tic-tac-toe
– Verb cubes with vocabulary and pronouns
– Agreement verb dice game for conversations
– Flip chart for definition/parameters
– Magnetic dolls (magnets not included) for a visual demonstration
– Practice sentence worksheet

 

Miss Manners Culture Comparisons Advice Column: Miss Manner is an activity inspired by See What I Mean: Differences Between Deaf and Hearing Cultures*. Students will become bloggers and receive “letters” to respond to a dilemma. Students will be charged with answering the letter on their blog from both a Deaf and hearing perspective.

This is a writing and signed presentational activity. This packet is great for getting students to think about what they have learned about Deaf culture. This can be used as a presentational assignment that can lead to interpersonal conversations or debates.

Included in this packet:

– 9 “letters” written to your student with colored borders
– 9 worksheets for students to construct a response to the letter for both hearing and deaf points of view (black and white)
– A rubric if you choose to incorporate it
– Ideas page to help you know how to incorporate in your classroom

*Note: you do not need to use this activity with the video.

Tell Me More Conversation Board: Tell Me More is a communicative activity for upper-level ASL students. This activity is great for partners, small groups or presentational conversations. Topics can be used at stations or as assessments. This can also be left on a sub day when there is no signing substitute. There are 16 various topics for students to ask partner(s) that allows open communication for responses. Activity includes: Directions, One game board with 16 topics, Color-coded cards (4 of each color).

Dice Game Food: Students love games. Why not free up your time and use this amazing activity to get students using ASL. Dice games are great for vocabulary practice and repetition. They can also be used to start conversations.

The game needs 2 dice. The game can be played in small groups or with partners. Once downloaded, make as many copies as needed for your classroom. Laminate them to prolong the life of the document. Printing in color is highly recommended for descriptions. Dice not included.

Food Station Rotation: This station activity has 6 rotations covering vocabulary, viewing, interpreting, and presentational communication. Each station has a beautiful and easy to use worksheets for students. Depending on your bell schedule, this can be a one-day or two-day rotation. The activities can also be used as sub day lesson plans or use individually as whole class instruction and individual assessment.

 

Packet includes

– Instructions for the teacher
– Clipart of food signs
– Worksheets that can be printed in color or black and white
-Video links for viewing (shortened and embedded)
– Location tents to use at each station
– Two original videos in ASL

Super Fun Food Activities: This packet of activities is a bundle of great practice ideas for ASL/ESL students to learn about food. The packet has tons of colored images and manipulatives for students to use for vocabulary practice and conversations. Images copy beautifully in color or black and white.

Activities range from vocabulary practice to interpretive tasks, individual to group work.
There are 6 different activities with many variations and room to adapt to various proficiency levels.

Activites include:
– I Spy
– Scrabble 3 ways
– Have a Conversation
– Paper Plate Meal
– Ethnic foods Presentational Project
-Feast for Ten – Children’s story with interpretive task and presentation

Activities can be used for a sub day, individual practice, review, Fun Fridays, or to reinforce vocabulary.

Food Activities: This packet can save your life and free up your time. There are 8 different activities and many high-quality food images to use for teaching vocabulary or to incorporate with any speaking activity. Activities are real-life situations and engaging for students. This is all the materials you will need to enhance learning in your classroom.

– Use for vocabulary practice
– Speaking activities
– Interactive notebook activities
– Sub days

Classifier Definitions and Activities: This activity is made for the novice to the intermediate American Sign Language student. Documents are set up for the study of classifier handshapes 5, 3, 4, V, F, C, B, and L. But the great thing about this activity is that it can be changed up to work with any classifier study including DCLs, ICLs, BCL,s and more. Change the handshapes to Include in your units of study for clothing, room arrangement, descriptions of objects and more. Use as an interactive notebook activity or as an addition to your classifier teaching. Classifier activities can also be used as a sub day lesson plan or a homework assignment.

Activity includes:

– Definition flip chart for notebook
– Blank definition pages
– Handshape images to be used on flip chart or cut and pasted for definitions
– Envelope template and assembly instructions
– Images for sorting
– Prompt cards for sentence creations using classifier handshapes

Free up your time with this already created activity. Enjoy this ASL activity with all levels of ASL classes. Pages can all be printed in black and white.

Have You Ever?…Oh When?: This is a communication activity for upper-level students. Activity contains 6 “Have you ever” questions for students to ask peers. Answers should be given and then students tell when it happened. This activity can be used over and over again because each time students will have different partners to ask the questions to. Questions range from funny, routine and serious. The activity works great as a station task, warm up, breakaway activity or sub-activity. Enjoy this communication practice!
Activity includes: *6 Questions Cards with 12 questions each *1 Direction Card

 

Partner Puzzle Quads: Use these puzzle pieces to create small groups in your classroom. Each puzzle has an image of a famous deaf person that is cut into 4 pieces to create a small group. The packet contains 12 puzzles equaling 48 pieces. Be creative, get students out of their seats and get communicating using this great idea for collaborative work.

 

Name 5 Board Game: This board game is a quick and fun way to get students talking in the target language. Use as a brain break activity, bell ringer, or just to have fun and build community in your classroom. This is a fun activity that can be left for a sub day. Print and laminate for multiple uses. Use in groups, partners or individually for practice.

 

 

I Have, Who Has 50 States Game: This game is used to practice vocabulary for the 50 states of America. Each card contains the phrase “I have (the state from the former card), who has…” and the manual alphabet that spells out the next state. Each card has an outline of the state that is being “looked for.”

To play, each student will receive a card (or 2 -3 depending on the number of students in your class). The first card state “start” on it. The student will sign the phrase then ask for the next state. The student with the next state will stand and repeat. Continue to play until all states have been called.

Activity contains cards for the 50 states and a title page.

 

 

The 5 Minute Activity: 11 pages of 5 minute talking prompts. Get students talking using this activity as a warm-up, review, bell ringer, to fill the last 5 minutes of class, or as a brain break in the middle of class. Each page is in color and can be projected or copied and distributed to students. There is a space for them to keep their points.

 

 

 

Word Work Activities: This vocabulary practice/review packet has 12 activities to practice vocabulary. The packet includes printable worksheets, colored images for projecting and directions for the activities. There are activities for any level of ASL/ESL language students. Some activities can be used for independent practice, partner work or group work.

 

Partner Puzzle Duos: Use these puzzle pieces as a creative way to partner students in your class. Puzzle pieces have 18 pictures/puzzles using art photos equaling 36 puzzle pieces. This is a great way to get students out of their seats and working with a variety of people in the classroom. Don’t let students work with the same person every day.

 

 

Traits Gap Activity – FREE DOWNLOAD. This is a gap activity or an A-B activity. Partners will use this worksheet to ask questions of their partner to find out information they are missing. This activity focuses on fingerspelling, tendencies, and personality traits.

 

 

The 5 Parameters Board Game: This is a “board” game designed to review signs. The focus of the game is for players to think about the five parameters and signs they know or can create by changing parameters and connecting like parameters. The game can be used for unit review, final exam preparation or a great sub activity. The game comes with:
1 Game board (1 computer size paper that can be enlarged)
3 pages of already created cards to use for review (63 cards with repeating cards)
1 page of teacher instructions on how to play the game

 

Personality Traits Dice Game: Students LOVE this game! Directions: Throw one dice then the other. The first dice gives you the number for the vertical line and the second dice gives you the number for the horizontal line. The total sum tells you which trait you ask your team about. Students can review vocabulary or extend the activity to talk about themselves and ask others questions.

Olympic Games Years and Practice: Use this set of Olympic cards to have students practice countries, years or both. Print and laminate cards to use them over and over again. Cards are organized by Summer Olympics or Winter Olympics. Use one set or both. Ideas for use:

Activity idea #1: Split the cards equally between small groups and have students take turns signing the country and year the Olympic games took place. You can use just summer, just winter or both sets of cards.

Activity idea #2: Use a worksheet and have students write the year and country by ordering the years from earliest to present. The worksheet is not included.

Activity idea #3: Use the cards and descriptive classifiers to describe the countries flag.
***This game is part of the ASL Olympics Thematic Unit
Set Includes:
– 11 pages of cards
– Summer games from 1932 – 2016
-Winter games from 1932 – 2018
-Cards show country, year, and the flag.

Free up your time and print these cards to use for various vocabulary practice. ASL numbers, ASL countries, and DCLs.

End of Break/Unit Review Activities: Use these games and activities to review vocabulary, grammar, and culture after a long break or the end of a unit. These activities will allow you to get students back on track or prepared for an exam. The packet has 6 activities with instructions and most have materials included. Activities include:
– “Punch It!” includes directions, how to assemble, 12 reward strip ideas and 26
review strips. (need foam board and cups)

– “Watch and Draw” includes directions and 3 images ranging from easy to difficult,
Can be easily changed out for your own images.

– “Connect Four” includes directions and example board showing how to play, (need
post-it notes)

– “Crumble and Shoot” includes directions.

– “Attack” includes directions and snowman image for individual play.

– “The Turtle” includes directions and turtle image to show how to draw.

– “Roll the Dice” includes directions and game board.

Other Activities you might enjoy:

Word Work Activities

Name Five Board Game

 

 

Occupations Gap Activity: This is a partner activity focusing on the practice of occupations, traits required for a job and courses or schooling the profession would need. This activity works well with the Signing Naturally unit 11 (new purple book) or the older SN book unit 10. Partners will help each other complete the missing information.

 

Sitting Duck Board Game ASL 1: Set includes 60 communication topics for students to talk about. Know that some students will be able to give vivid details and have a lot to say while others may only be able to use one sentence. Monitor the room during play and offer help to struggling students. Positive comments and modeling will help encourage students to continue playing the game.

 

 

Dice Game, States: Directions: Throw one dice then the other. The first dice gives you the number for the vertical line and the second dice gives you the number for the horizontal line. The total sum tells you which state you will travel to. Use this game to review states or to create sentences about travel and ask questions to others about their travel. Great for past tense or future tense speaking activities.

 

Dice Game Clothing: Use this fun game to give students the opportunity to practice clothing related vocabulary and Descriptive Classifiers (DCLs). This game also lets students be creative in putting together their own what not to wear outfit with the clothing on the grid.
The game needs 2 dice. The game can be played in small groups or with partners. Once downloaded, make as many copies as needed for your classroom. Laminate them to prolong the life of the document. Printing in color is highly recommended for descriptions.

 

Poetry Stations Bundle: Packet includes 4 ACTIVITIES. Use these activity stations for your students to create poetry about ASL, the life of a student, discrimination, what they know about Deaf culture or any topic you assign for the poetry. Stations can be used individually, on a sub day or as a class learning station experience. Packet includes:*4 separate activities (2 written, 2 signed) *Links to all materials needed including sources online for individual learning/viewing *Ideas for the teacher in implementing the lessons *Help on where to find materials needed *A free download to activity #1 can be found at poetry station lesson #1

Use glass aquarium beads to cover Bingo boards so students can play multiple rounds. If you have premade cards, this saves the using torn paper or other random objects. Beads can be found here.

 

Li’l Pick Me Up! Fun Songs for Learning 200 + ASL Signs is a great way to get students to practice vocabulary words. The songs a geared towards small children, but the older kids get a big kick out of signing these songs. The best part is they never forget the words. My seniors can still sing and sign the songs even though they learned it freshmen year.