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First Signs Handout (printable .pdf)
Numbers 0-10 Signs Handout (printable .pdf)
Color Signs Handout (printable .pdf)
5 Little Flowers Song Handout (printable .pdf)
Bouncing Buckaroo handout (printable .pdf)
Sign With Your Child Handout for parents
Recommended Online ASL Dictionaries:
- HandSpeak
- Gallaudet Children’s Dictionary of American Sign Language
- Signing Time Dictionary (includes model descriptions of signs in English)
- ASLBloom
- ASL University
- SigningSavvy (Browsing access free; searching from the site available for subscribers only. To search this site without an account, go to google.com and search “Signing Savvy” followed by the word you are looking for)
Song: “Jumping and Counting” by Jim Gill
The Runaway Shirt Storytime with author Kathy MacMillan
Hello Song (Kathy MacMillan) (1:44)
I’m a Little Snowman: A Song to Sign (Kathy MacMillan) (0:52):
5 Little Flowers (Kathy MacMillan) (4:46):
Autumn Leaves Song (direct link):
Recommended Resources About Signing with Children:
- Nita’s First Signs and Nita’s Day by Kathy MacMillan. Familius Press.
- Little Hands and Big Hands: Children and Adults Signing Together by Kathy MacMillan. Hands Up Press, 2022.
- Sign to Learn: American Sign Language in the Early Childhood Classroom by Kirsten Dennis and Tressa Azpiri. Redleaf Press, 2005.
- Dancing with Words: Signing for Hearing Children’s Literacy by Marilyn Daniels. Bergin and Garvey, 2001.
- Sign with Robert: Babies and Children with Robert DeMayo. DVD and Streaming.
- Signing Time series. Two Little Hands Productions. DVD and Streaming.
- ASL Nook
Recommended storytime books:
More Resources for Signing with Children:
Little Hands Signing series – book info and parent/teacher resources
Sign the Seasons series – book info and parent/teacher resources
Resources for Signing with Babies and Young Children
Picture Books about ASL and Deaf Culture
Resources for Educators and Librarians
Resources for Signing in Storytime or the Classroom
Stories by Hand with Kathy MacMillan 