Curriculum Resources
Where to Find Curriculum Resources?
Fax: (202) 651-5724 Email at bookstore.office@gallaudet.edu Garlic Press, http://www.garlicpress.com, has many curriculum tools for teachers in the deaf education field, and many of them may be appropriate for use with deaf adults. They have curriculum series for mathematics, sign language, literature, and English. Harris Communications, http://www.harriscomm.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=35_134&osCsid=b82ea9b39174447a58e565186e501b62, has many teaching resources in addition to devices that are specifically designed for the deaf, deaf culture resources, videotapes, and ASL resources.
Useful Literacy Resources To get the following books, one can order from Gallaudet University catalog, Harris Communications Web site http://www.harriscomm.com, or from any on-line bookstores.
Dialogue journals are used in many classrooms, and this resource is particularly beneficial for deaf education classrooms. There are guidelines that inform teachers how to use the dialogue journals in the classroom to foster literacy. Assessment tools for literacy are also an essential part of education. A curricular resource on how to assess deaf students' literacy skills can be found in French, M. M. (1999). Starting with assessment: A developmental approach to deaf children's literacy. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. She also wrote an accompanying workbook, "The toolkit appendices for starting with assessment."
Writing workshop is a reliable method of teaching students how to write, and this author explains in detail on how to implement this technique in the classrooms for the deaf. Many of these techniques can be used on other students as well with some adaptations.
This portfolio is a collection of articles written by teachers who have used a variety of literacy strategies in their classrooms. Their ideas may provide some inspiration and ideas to be used in classrooms.
This book is for teachers to learn about the reading process that deaf learners go through based on research. It also includes curriculum suggestions, assessment tools and applications. |
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