Let's Sign: Beginner American Sign Language (5-7 Years)

Weeks 1-5 start with very basic/beginner vocabulary and gradually build up expressive and receptive language to more complex topics like questions and sentence structure to Weeks 6-11 while also mixing in some fun vocabulary. 

In this beginner ASL class, learners will get to grips with the first steps of learning American Sign Language.

Week beginning 30/12/24: Days of the Week
Week beginning 6/1/25: Family
Week beginning 13/1/25: Animals
Week beginning 20/1/25: Places
Week beginning 27/1/25: Jobs 
Week beginning 3/2/25: Transportation 
Week beginning 10/2/25: ABCs/Fingerspelling
Week beginning 17/2/25: Emotions
Week beginning 24/2/25: Colours
Week beginning 3/3/25: Weather 


Some additional things I would include with longer session times or as homework assignments that learners can do at their own pace is expressive and receptive skills with these topics like fingerspelling and letter practice, question practice and using pronouns/emotions/describing words. Many fun activity sheets are available for ASL ABC and number practice, word searches, etc. 

Within each lesson aside from vocab things like handshape, palm orientation, movement, location, and non-manual markers will be included as these are essential things for all signs. 

All vocabulary taught can be found either in ASL dictionaries published or from Gallaudet University’s website where they include videos of all of this information covered.