Grade 5: Experiencing Creative Works

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

• view creative works, with visual and contextual support, and respond to them in various ways

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Throughout the year, present ASL songs to students. Select those with easy lyrics, memorable melodies, and appealing rhythms. When signed words are provided, invite students to sign along with the song or its chorus.
• Challenge students to create and present short mimes incorporating ASL. Ideas for mime could come from the current season or a current class theme (e.g., carving a pumpkin).
• Have students view a segment of a TV program for children and create puppets of the characters. Students could use the puppets later in class-created vignettes.
• Use pictures, key words, and ASL signs from simple illustrated storybooks for prereading and prediction activities. As the various books are signed (by the teacher, a monitor, or a student or guest fluent in ASL), students watch while following the illustrations. Once they are familiar with a story, students could create posters promoting the story and then explain their posters in ASL.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• Invite students in groups to present renditions of songs they've learned, adding effects such as expression, mime, role play, and so on. Assessment criteria might include:
  • all group members participate
  • inflection suits the meaning
  • added special effects suit the song's theme
• Form groups and ask each to illustrate a poem, nursery rhyme, song, or story the class has learned. Have each group member copy and illustrate a different line of the work on a large sheet of paper. Compile the finished pages into a class anthology and add it to the class resource collection. Ask groups to assess and report on their participation and group communication skills. Assessment may also be conducted by conferencing briefly with individual students, noting their:
  • engagement in the task
  • interest in and enthusiasm for the original work
  • interest in their classmates' illustrations
  • ability to capture the meaning of the original work
• Encourage students to keep lists in English of creative works that include the titles and creators of the works they have viewed, read, or listened to. Each entry should include a pictorial representation of an ASL sign representing the genre, a short comment giving an opinion of the work, and one important feature of the work. Review the lists from time to time for evidence that students are able to express personal views and to notice key features.

• Bravo ASL! Curriculum
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