Module · Grades 6-12 · World Languages and ASL

Classifiers and Space

Using space and classifiers to show location and movement.

Grade: Grades 6-12
Subject: World Languages and ASL
Course: American Sign Language (proficiency levels)
Strand: Intermediate
Standards: ACTFL.Intermediate Mid
ACTFL

Tools

1 ready to use.

Classifier Scenes

Set up twenty pictures the way ASL does: decide what stays still, choose a classifier handshape for each object, then place and move them in signing space and flip to the viewer's view.

World Languages and ASL Grades 6-12 Studio

Word Wall

6 words in English and Spanish: classifier, signing space, referent, depiction, location, role shift. Print them as wall cards, mini cards or a student glossary.

Print the words

Lesson plans

One class period each, built around a tool. Print them, change them, share them.

Classifier Scenes40 minutes · I can use ground and figure, classifier handshapes and the signer's perspective to describe where things are and how they move.