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

by Penny Warner, Paula Gray (Illustrator)

Here’s a great book for every young adult age 11 up, Signing 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 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.

Genres: Reference

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

About the author

Penny Warner is an award-winning author of over sixty books, including DEAD BODY LANGUAGE mystery series (Macavity winner), HOW TO HOST A KILLER PARTY series, and the upcoming Food Festival series. Her middle-grade mystery, THE CODE BUSTERS CLUB, won the Agatha Award for Best Children's Mystery.

Reviews

[Hanalei1208 Be · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book we shall be purchasing. I read it to see if it would offer educational fun for the times I have grandchildren around this summer. It offers clear illustrations, as well as game options and I expect the kids and I will learn a lot from the sharing.

[Lugene Lancaster · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ended up buy this book

[Triana Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish it wouldve had more used signs.