Instructional Resources

2011 CAL-ED Conference Presentation 

"Balancing Bilingualism: New Effective Strategies for ASL and English Academic and Communicative Language Proficiency"

Contact Us:

• Link to contact Amy Pelletier and Alexander Zernovoj for more information: http://zernovoj.blogspot.com/p/email-me.html 

PowerPoint:  

• 2011 CAL-ED "Balancing Bilingualism" PPT Slides

Handouts and Rubrics:

• Brochure (Descriptive) Project Guide and Rubric 
• Final Exam
• Fine and Performing Art Project
• Five Senses Poem Handouts and Rubric 
• Flash Card Sheet
• Historical Event Writing Project 
• More Practice with Topics and Controlling Ideas 
• Novel-based Board Game Rubric
• Novel-based Project Ideas
• Rubric - Book Review 
• Rubric - Comparison of Historical Records for a Single Event
• Rubric - Expository Essay
• Rubric - Multimedia Presentation: School Tour 
• Rubric - PowerPoint/Tri-fold Poster Evaluation
• Rubric - Public Speaking Presentation 
• Rubric - Speaking and Listening Student Self-Assessment Checklist
• Tall Tales: All About Them 

Sample student work:

• Book review
• Fables
• Investigating urban legends
• Job description
• Letter to next year's class
• School magazine
• Travel brochure

Websites: 

• http://www.voicethread.com/for video essays, narratives, expository and persuasive vlogs 
• http://1001booksinasl.blogspot.com/ for comparison of signed word for word and literal/free ASL translations
• http://www.signingsavvy.com/, http://www.aslpro.com/ and http://www.lifeprint.com/ for video ASL dictionaries 
• http://www.asltales.net/guide-deaf.html or http://research.gallaudet.edu/Presentations/2008-10-01.ppt for more information on ASL Guided Viewing
• http://zernovoj.blogspot.com/p/links-resources.html  for other general teaching and learning resources
  

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