Description
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About the LOTE teaching guides
Our Auslan teaching guides cover K to 10. For full details go to our "About the Auslan Teaching Guides" page.
These teaching kits include everything you need to teach Auslan as a LOTE.
Each guide including 2 years of material!
About LOTE Teaching Guide Volume 1
Volume 1 is written specifically for young students (K to 2) with no reading ability, with a teaching model based on play and song.
It focus’ on signs that are likely to actually engage and interest little learners and that can easily slot into the average K-2 day
The main goal is vocab building in raising awareness of the language through play.
Used in over 200 schools already the popularity of this all inclusive guide is growing rapidly!
Prerequisite: Requires no prior knowledge or reading capability
Synopsis: Learning through play and songs, focus’ on themes that engage young learners
Topics covered in Year 1:
- Farm Animals & Pets, joined with Colours
- Family and numbers
- Places around he school and playground
- Places at home
- Fruit break (blended with colour descriptors)
- Basic questions
- Who uses Sign Language and why
Total vocab inc: 448
Topics Covered in Year 2:
- Birds & ocean creatures, blended with shapes, colour and basic animal descriptors
- At the circus
- Inside & outside play
- Furniture & appliances at home
- Vegetables
- Everyday and Important words
- Deaf famous people
Total vocab inc : 505 signs
Special Event Topics:
There is supplementary, optional topics on Birthdays, Easter and Christmas that can be implemented at the appropriate times in the year. The Birthday topic can be used as a short 5 min item as each child has a birthday; gradually expanded throughout the second year to include fingerspelling the students name. While the Easter and Christmas topics can be utilised as a fun end to term 1 & 4.
Content Samples
Sample of class handouts for Farm animals available on SignPlanet.net : here
There is also a video flick attached to this listing (see images) through that slowly page turns through the farm animal and colour chapters showing northern and southern editions of handouts, and a more abridged turn through other sections
What's in the folder
Presented in a Durable folder with plastic dividers and pockets packed full of resources.
- 430 Pages of teaching material!
- Every section includes teachers notes, a quick reference teachers dictionary
- Activities games and assessment activities to use in class
- CD-Rom with Menu for navigating all the printable handouts
Digital Content Option with SignPlanet.net
The Curriculum Material section on SignPlanet.net is divided according to each of the printed guides, with subsections for each chapter/learning area.
This includes teaching content for all three volumes and all CDROM content that comes with Volume 1 and 2!
Since publication of this guide
We have updated handouts and added additional material online available on SignPlanet.net with an Organisation license (purchased separately at discounts to LOTE Guide owners). The original folder included a DVD (Something To Sign About) that is no longer in production, and related songs are being uploaded to SignPlanet under the curriculum area.
We have added a number of online games that reinforce learning areas of the LOTE Teaching guides, and "watch and Learn" video play throughs.
For full details read the "About Auslan Teaching Guide Digital Content on SignPlanet.net" page
Purchase options
Volume 1 Folder only : $375
Volume 1 + 12 month Small organisation License to sign Planet : $ 595
RRP $300 for SP org lic + folder $375 = $675
Volume 1+ 2 + 3 + 12 month Small organisation License to sign Planet : $ 1125 ( RRP $1265)
Your small site license provides for 4 consecutive users (seats). Upgrades available for more simultaneous seats