Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities [Paperback]

Penny Warner (Author), Paula Gray (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up

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.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-8–Following the same format as Warner's excellent Learn to Sign the Fun Way! (Crown, 2001), this trove of American Sign Language vocabulary and games expands the scope of that title to include more signs and phrases of interest to middle school students. Vocabulary is arranged in thematic chapters ( animal signs, health signs, school signs, scary signs, etc.), and each chapter ends with a series of illustrated practice sentences demonstrating how to put the signs together. The line drawings are far livelier than most sign language dictionary illustrations, and if the arrows showing the movement of the signs are sometimes difficult to decipher (a pitfall faced by any attempt to capture a three-dimensional language in two dimensions), the written descriptions go a long way to help clarify things. A section of 43 games offers original inventions like Combine a Sign and Match Signs as well as sign language twists on old favorites such as hangman, charades, bingo, and truth or dare. This book is a great resource for readers who want to learn more signs, or for teachers and librarians looking for fun ways to share them with kids.–Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD
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About the Author

Penny Warner is a child development instructor and the author of more than 40 books living in Danville, CA.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press; 1st edition (November 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563682923
• ISBN-13: 978-1563682926
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent beginner's book and vocabulary builder, April 10, 2007

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities (Paperback)

Written by child development instructor Penny Warner, Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, & Activities is a guide to learning American Sign Language for readers age 11 and up. Each handsign is illustrated with cheerful and cartoony black-and-white pictures. Presenting 441 useful signs for a variety of favorite topics, practice sentences with everyday phrases, games and activities for practicing signs, tips on how to sign or fingerspell, use numbers, and communicate with deaf people, Signing Fun is highly recommended as an excellent beginner's book and vocabulary builder for learning ASL.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Signing in the Mountains, April 26, 2009

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Tighe White (Hayesville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities (Paperback)

This is a pretty good book to get people started. My wife signs, mostly in "song" at local churches, it adds another dimension to the music for the hearing and blesses any deaf that might attend. There are just a few deaf in our area of the western North Carolina mountains, my wife knows them all. Me, I enjoy watching her.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Signing Fun, September 9, 2009

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Hilary R. Ainbender (West Palm Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities (Paperback)

I like this textbook better than Learn to Sign the Fun way but unfortunately, it does not include practice sentences whereas the latter does. Also the instructions for games are not quite clear.