Description
If you are looking for a curriculum that will engage students and simplify your life this is it. This unit is the first in the ASL 3 curriculum series.
Creative ASL Teaching has designed this unit to include everything you and your students need to start the pathway to proficiency and develop strong ASL language skills. This unit focuses on housing, furniture, floor plans, solar energy, and Deaf Space. Students will enhance signer’s perspective skills and discuss higher-level topics like solar power and Deaf Space.
The unit will last 8 – 24 days depending on your bell schedule, students, and teaching style.
This unit covers these topics:
- Housing vocabulary
- Signer’s perspective
- Interior and exterior of the home
- Renovations to a house
- Use of solar panels (pros and cons)
- Deaf Space
This unit contains:
- Daily, step-by-step lesson plans
- I can statements – Daily and full unit
- Vocabulary list
- Interpersonal communication daily topics
- Partner activities
- Game ideas and suggestions
- Essential questions for each day
- Suggested sub-day ideas
- Teacher reflection opportunities
- Student end-of-unit reflection
- Daily activities
- Teacher resources and instructions
- Answer keys to activities when applicable
- Digital and editable
- End of unit assessment in the interpretive and interpersonal modes
- Original videos for activities and test
- IPA end-of-unit exam
This unit will download as a PDF and contains a link to a digital resource.
Activities are digital but can be modified to use in a non-1:1 device setting.
Creative ASL Teaching has a thematic unit on housing that covers similar themes but does not use a Comprehensible approach (CI) to the language. The units can work in tandem together but are very different in delivery.




