5

This book uses pictures to show students how to sign the alphabet. I loved how easy it is for students to follow along to. I could easily picture my first grade students flipping the pages quickly to spell their name correctly in sign language.

Perfect book to guide you as the teacher to teach children ASL and be accurate.

Ages: 3-5
Source: Pierce College Library ( )

In my opinion, this is a really great book. Rather then the usual alphabet books with the letter and a picture of something related to the letter, this book has the American Sign Language (ASL) handshape used to represent each letter of the alphabet. But rather than just have the handshape itself, each hand is holding something that starts with that letter. For example, letter F is shown making the handshape with fog going around and through the hand; the letter G is shown with a hand making the handshape that is wearing a glove. I really liked the unique way the author decided to portray the handshapes. Also, all the hands used were hands of all ages, shapes, sizes, and colors. I really liked how this aspect of multiculturalism was incorporated. The illustrations were not extremely bold but they were very detailed; the wrinkles and creases of each hand were vivid and shaded very well. The big idea of this book was to inform readers about the handshapes used to portray English letters in ASL. All in all I thought this was a really great book and I loved how unique it was. ( )

An Alphabet book that features hands forming the letters in American Sign Language. This is a great book for children to help develop their fine motor-skills.

Source: Personal
Ages: 3-6