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Elaborations
- realising that meaning is communicated through the use of signs, pictures, written or spoken words or miming
- identifying a sign's handshape and its orientation, for example, COCKATOO (hs:5, palm left) and SOCCER (hs:fist)
- identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in handshape, for example FIND or BEST
- identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in orientation, for example CAN-NOT or HOW
- noticing the path movement of a particular sign and identifying signs associated with the major types of path movements, for example, THROUGH (forwards) or FULL (down to up)
- noticing the five major locations of signs on the body or in space, and identifying signs associated with each, such as SEE (head/face), SAY (mouth/chin), WHY (chest), TALK (hand) and ONE (signing space)
- thinking of body-anchored signs, such as HEAD or WHY, and signs that are not body anchored, such as HAVEor STOP, and recognising that non-body anchored signs can be located in space around the signer
- understanding that NMFs can also be an element of a sign and can show emotional states such as a happy expression, or grammatical information, for example, a frown to mark a negative, and identifying examples of NMFs in a text
- noticing that in a stretch of connected signing a sign will often be produced differently to the way it is shown in a dictionary
- distinguishing between single, double and two-handed signs, and identifying which hand is dominant and which is non-dominant in two-handed signs
- noticing that in signed languages meaning can be expressed through whole signs or through fingerspelling
- comparing iconic signs that provide visual images of referents, such as DRINK, ELEPHANT with English words that map to the sound images of the referents, such as animal noises, or words for sounds such as bang or woof woof
- identifying signs with different levels of iconicity, for example, those that are fully transparent, translucent or arbitrary
- experimenting with different methods of capturing signed languages, such as: a class-invented script, drawing pictures, videoing, English glosses or ASL-phabet