Reading Signs

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Objectives: To recognize common signs and understand what they mean.

Materials:
    One flash card for each of the signs to be taught (these must be large
    enough for each of the students to see). One copy of Worksheet A and
    Worksheet B.

Special Instructions:
    This lesson should be taught in several short sessions with a maximum of
    five new signs being introduced in each session.

Procedure:
    Show the STOP flash card. Pronounce the word "stop" and ask the students
    what it means. Here the students pronounce the word. Show a picture or
    demonstrate the meaning.

    Repeat #1 with the "DO NOT ENTER" flash card.

    Hold the two flash cards up or set them on the chalkboard tray. Read one at
    random and have a student come up and identify which was read. Repeat this
    several times until the students can quickly identify the sign which the
    teacher reads.

    Hold up two flash cards with the backs facing the students. Have students
    come up and select one, show it to the class and read it.
    Place the flash cards along the chalkboard the students. Have the students
    close their eyes while the teacher removes one card. Have the students open
    their eyes and try to identify the missing sign.

    Repeat steps 2-5 with each new sign introduced, each time assuring that
    students can perform the steps with all the signs to that point.

    After the students have had the signs on Worksheet A presented to them,
    divide the students into pairs. Distribute copies of the worksheet and have
    one student in each pair test the other on five items, then have them switch
    roles. The student who is testing the other can point to a sign and have the
    student read it.

    Steps 1-7 should be repeated with Worksheet B.