The American Sign Language Handshape Puzzle Book - Softcover

Hillebrand, Linda Lascelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563683105 ISBN 13: 9781563683107

Publisher: Gallaudet University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The American Sign Language Handshape Puzzle Book features 54 different puzzles to help students learn, review, and strengthen their signing vocabulary. Inspired by the bestselling dictionary, this unique workbook offers a variety of puzzles at three different levels — easy, medium, and difficult. Author Linda Lascelle Hillebrand provides a concise explanation of the basic handshapes used in American Sign Language (ASL), then invites readers to have fun while solving all sorts of sign puzzles.

Users can practice sign identification with Crossword and Word Search puzzles that have signs as clues rather than words. Easy puzzles show as few as six signs while advanced puzzles contain as many as 30 signs each. Some of the crossword puzzles provide spaces both across and down for the multiple meanings that many signs can represent.

Handshape Order puzzles require users to identify the handshape of the sign in an illustration, then list the sign’s meaning in English. Match puzzles also challenge readers to find corresponding signs for English glosses. Solutions to It Doesn’t Belong and Sign Description puzzles depend upon knowing the parameters of ASL signs—handshape, orientation, location, and movement—to deduce which word in a list doesn’t belong, and to write the English word for the described signs. The American Sign Language Handshape Puzzle Book is a new, different, and entertaining way to practice ASL that students of all ages are sure to enjoy.

About this title

About the Author

Linda Lascelle Hillebrand, a sign language teacher for two decades, lives in Saukville, Wisconsin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563683105
• ISBN 13: 9781563683107
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120