Full Description
Research shows that teaching sign language to all young children has a wide range of benefits, from enhancing social?emotional and preliteracy skills to supporting positive parent?child relationships. With Sing & Sign for Young Children, early childhood professionals will have a fun, easy, and highly effective way to teach and practice key ASL sign vocabulary through music and play during everyday classroom routines.
Packed with engaging sign language activities and original, kid?friendly songs, this innovative program was created by a music therapist and early childhood specialist with years of experience working and playing with young children. Dr. Anne Meeker Watson, creator of the SING.PLAY.LOVE.® program, shows you how to transform your daily activities—including arrival, mealtime, shared book reading, free play, and departure—into joyful learning opportunities infused with music, play, and warm adult?child connections. You'll get everything you need to implement the program when you purchase the book: original songs with lyrics and scores, guidance and tips for beginning the program, pictures of all the signs and hand formations, suggested activities and games, a list of additional resources, and videos modeling signs for each song.
BENEFITS:
Strengthens skills essential for academic and social success:communication, social?emotional, self?regulation, and literacy skills
Combines signing with music—a powerful, motivating, and neurologically rich experience for young children
Helps children build positive, meaningful relationships with each other and with their educators and caregivers
Infuses the school day with joy and fun, creating an environment that's conducive to sustained attention and engagement
Gives children many chances to practice and demonstrate new skills across daily routines
Helps support communication development for all children, including dual language learners and children with language delays
DOWNLOADABLE MATERIALS: Put Sing & Sign into action with a complete package of downloadable online materials, including 13 audio recordings, 18 instructional videos, and 18 printable pages of song cards, instructions, and photographs and illustrations of key vocabulary words. (Vocabulary word pages are available in both English and Spanish.)
Contents
About the Online Materials
About the Author
Foreward by Becky Bailey
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Mealtime and Manners
Mealtime and Manners
Mealtime Mess
Picky Eaters
May I Have Your Undividided Attention?
Taste and Talk
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Fill the Basket
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing Fill the Basket
Fun Activities to Share with Fill the Basket
My Kitchen Door
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing My Kitchen Door
Fun Activities to Share with My Kitchen Door
More Signs for Mealtime and Manners
Books to Read and Sign
Chapter 2 Let's Play!
Let's Play!
May I Have Your Attention Please?
Sing & Sign Is a Family Affair
Sing & Sign for the Senses
Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Sing & Sign in Nature
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Mommy Go 'Round the Sun
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing Mommy Go 'Round the Sun
Fun Activities to Share with Mommy Go 'Round the Sun
Roll the Ball
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing Roll the Ball
Fun Activities to Share with Roll the Ball
More Signs for Playtime
Books to Read and Sign
Chapter 3 Fostering Relationships, Relaxation, and Rest
Fostering Relationships, Relaxation, and Rest
The Feeling is Mutual: Mutual Versus Self-Regulation
Emotional Literacy
Supporting Parent-Child Attachment
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
What'll We Do with the Baby?
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing What'll We Do with the Baby?
Fun Activities to Share with What'll We Do with the Baby?
Birdie, Birdie
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing Birdie, Birdie
Fun Activities to Share with Birdie, Birdie
More Signs for Relationships, Relaxation, and Rest
Books to Read and Sign
Chapter 4 Utilizing Sign and Song for Routines and Transitions
Utilizing Sign and Song for Routines and Transitions
Routines
Transitions
Piggy-Back Songs and Strategies for Routines and Transitions
Singing the Praises of Visual Schedules
The Best and Briefest Advice I can Offer
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Walking Song
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing Walking Song
Fun Activities to Share with Walking Song
We're Having a Bath
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing We're Having a Bath
Fun Activities to Share with We're Having a Bath
More Signs for Transitions and Routines
Books to Read and Sign
Chapter 5 Sing, Sign, and Read
Sing, Sign, and Read
The Perfect Combination: Songs, Signs, Books, and YOU
Singing Picture Books
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Grandpa's Farm
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing Grandpa's Farm
Fun Activities to Share with Grandpa's Farm
What Color Am I?
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing What Color Am I?
Fun Activities to Share with What Color Am I?
Books to Read and Sign
Chapter 6 Following the Young Child's Lead
Following the Young Child's Lead
Face Time
Wait Time
Play Time
Self-Confidence and Competence
Child's Choice
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Saturday Morning
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing Saturday Morning
Fun Activities to Share with Saturday Morning
My World
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing My World
Fun Activities to Share with My World
I Take the Music with Me
Signs to Sing
Tips for Introducing I Take the Music with Me
Fun Activities to Share with I Take the Music with Me
More Signs for Supporting Independence
Books to Read and Sign
Pictorial Sign Dictionary
Suggested Reading
