ASL 2 Intermediate — Kids (Ages 7–12) · 24-Week Course
$15 per class or $360 for all 24 classes
Ready to help your learner grow beyond the basics? In this live 24-week ASL 2 course, learners build confidence using American Sign Language to share ideas, understand others, and take part in conversations.
✅ What we’ll learn: Learners practice asking and answering questions, adding details to their signs, understanding signed messages, and telling short stories. Topics include everyday routines, people and places, time and plans, ASL grammar, facial expressions, signing space, classifiers, and Deaf culture.
✅ What class is like: We meet once a week. Each lesson includes a quick review, a clear demonstration of new skills, guided practice, and an interactive activity. Lessons build on one another so learners can use what they’ve practiced in new ways.
✅ How learners participate: Learners sign with the instructor throughout class through games, visual challenges, conversations, and story activities. The instructor models signs, gives learners time to try them, and offers kind, specific feedback.
Our teaching style is visual, encouraging, and hands-on. Learners can ask for a sign to be shown again or more slowly as they grow their skills and confidence.
What Your Learner Will Do
- Learners will ask and answer questions in short ASL conversations about familiar topics, using follow-up questions and appropriate facial expressions.
- Learners will understand signed descriptions and short stories, then respond to questions about the main idea and key details.
- Learners will create a short signed story using time signs, signing space, and classifiers to show people, places, and actions.
Syllabus
24 Lessons · over 24 Weeks
Week 1: Welcome Back to ASL! Review and Introductions
We review ASL 1 basics (alphabet, numbers, greetings) and introduce ourselves with fuller sentences, setting expectations for ASL 2.
Week 2: Family and Relationships
We expand family vocabulary and practice describing relationships in connected sentences, such as who is older, younger, or lives with whom.
Week 3: Describing People
We learn signs for physical traits and personality and practice combining them into full descriptive sentences about ourselves and others.
Week 4: Daily Routines
We practice signing our daily schedule in order, using connected sentences and time signs to describe morning, afternoon, and evening routines.
Week 5: Review and Conversation Practice
We review Weeks 1 through 4 and practice short partner conversations combining family, description, and daily routine vocabulary.
Week 6: Time Concepts and Schedules
We learn signs for time, days, and scheduling, and practice describing our weekly schedule using connected sentences.
Week 7: Community Places
We learn signs for places in our community, such as school, store, park, and library, and practice sentences about where we go and why.
Week 8: Shopping and Preferences
We learn signs for shopping, items, and preferences, and practice sentences asking for and choosing things we like or need.
Week 9: Community Helpers and Jobs
We learn signs for different jobs and community helpers and practice sentences describing what people do and where they work.
Week 10: Transportation and Directions
We learn signs for vehicles and directions and practice giving and following simple directions using connected sentences.
Week 11: Review and Conversation Practice
We review Weeks 6 through 10 and practice short partner conversations about schedules, places, shopping, jobs, and directions.
Week 12: Weather and Seasons Revisited
We expand weather and season vocabulary and practice comparing seasons and describing weather using connected sentences.
Week 13: Feelings and Emotions Expanded
We expand emotion vocabulary and practice explaining feelings with reasons in connected sentences and expressive facial grammar.
Week 14: Health and the Body
We learn signs for body parts and feeling sick and practice short conversations about how someone feels and what they need.
Week 15: Asking Questions and Sharing Opinions
We practice a variety of question types and learn to share opinions and agree or disagree using connected sentences.
Week 16: Review and Conversation Practice
We review Weeks 12 through 15 and practice conversations about weather, feelings, health, and opinions.
Week 17: Storytelling Basics
We learn sequencing signs like first, next, then, and finally, and practice putting events in order to tell a simple story.
Week 18: Role Shift and Character Signing
We practice becoming different characters when signing, using body shift, facial expression, and eye gaze to show who is talking.
Week 19: Retelling a Story
We practice retelling a short story in order, using sequencing signs, role shift, and expressive facial grammar.
Week 20: Building Our Own Story
We create our own short original story, choosing characters and events, and begin practicing it with sequencing and expression.
Week 21: Review and Story Rehearsal
We review storytelling skills and rehearse our original stories with partners, focusing on sequencing and expression.
Week 22: Independent Conversations
We practice free, independent conversations, asking questions and expressing needs, wants, and opinions without prompts.
Week 23: Final Presentation Prep
We put the finishing touches on our final stories or presentations and practice signing them smoothly and confidently.
Week 24: Final Celebration and Presentations