ASL 2 Intermediate — Little Signers (Ages 3–7) · 24-Week Course
$15 per class or $360 for all 24 classes
Ready for the next step after ASL 1? In this 24-week live course, young learners use familiar signs to share ideas, ask questions, and understand short signed stories. We build vocabulary and conversation skills around family, feelings, daily routines, animals, food, descriptions, numbers, and sequencing. Learners also practice fingerspelling, visual attention, facial expressions, signing space, and respectful communication in Deaf culture.
Each 30-minute meeting starts with a quick visual warm-up, introduces or reviews a small set of useful signs, and moves into a signed story, movement game, or show-and-sign activity. Every child gets chances to sign with the teacher and classmates, answer signed questions, and receive warm, specific feedback. Short voice-off moments help learners focus on the visual language. Lessons revisit earlier skills so confidence grows week by week.
This is an interactive class with little outside work. Families can support learning by encouraging brief practice at home. Two optional signing assignments and two low-pressure skill checks across the course give learners a chance to show their progress.
What Your Learner Will Do
- Learners will combine familiar vocabulary into clear two- to five-sign thoughts and simple topic-comment sentences.
- Learners will understand and respond to age-appropriate signed questions, directions, descriptions, and short stories.
- Learners will use facial expressions, turn-taking, visual attention, fingerspelling, and signing space during playful conversations.
Prerequisites: Learners should have completed ASL 1 or know the alphabet, numbers 1–20, greetings, family, colors, feelings, common actions, and simple signed phrases. Young learners may have an adult nearby for technology support.
Syllabus
3 Units · 24 Lessons · over 24 Weeks
Unit 1: Beginning: From ASL 1 to Conversation
Week 1: ASL 1 Bridge: Introductions and Responses
Reconnect through a short signed introduction about name, age, family, likes and feelings. Review visual attention, turn-taking and familiar questions; the teacher checks each learner’s starting point.
Week 2: Food Preferences with Details
Build on ASL 1 food signs by adding fruit, snacks and preference details. Use picture PPT and a short signed food story to answer WHAT YOU LIKE? with a connected response.
Week 3: Meals and Daily Choices
Sign breakfast, lunch, dinner and favorite meals. Compare choices, ask a partner what they want, and use familiar WANT, LIKE and DON’T LIKE signs in a longer exchange.
Week 4: Food Story and Review Game
Follow a short signed story about choosing food, identify details and retell the sequence. Play a PPT picture game to review food vocabulary, questions and responses.
Week 5: Beyond Hello: Longer Exchanges
Expand ASL 1 greetings into a back-and-forth conversation: name, feeling, favorite thing and follow-up question. Practice clear signing, eye gaze and partner turn-taking.
Week 6: Who, What and Where Questions
Build on familiar WH questions with accurate facial expression and fuller answers. Use picture slides and a short signed mystery story to ask WHO, WHAT and WHERE.
Week 7: Put Signs Together
Combine familiar signs into short connected thoughts about a topic, such as MY DOG, BROWN or TODAY, RAIN. Practice meaning and facial expression through teacher modeling and partner prompts.
Week 8: Conversation Game and Check-In
Use food, family, feelings, routines and WH questions in playful partner challenges. Watch a short teacher-signed story, answer comprehension questions and set one signing goal.
Unit 2: Middle: Descriptions and Signed Stories
Week 9: Practice Conversations
Take turns opening, continuing and closing a short ASL conversation. Ask follow-up questions and respond with more than one sign using visual prompts and teacher feedback.
Week 10: Show and Tell with Details
Show a toy, drawing or favorite object. Sign its name, color, size and why you like it; classmates ask simple questions and practice receptive understanding.
Week 11: Describe Yourself
Build on ASL 1 colors and clothing signs to describe hair, clothes, likes and personality. Use mirror or picture PPT prompts to make a connected “about me” description.
Week 12: Describe Friends and Family
Describe another person using family or friend signs, appearance and qualities such as kind or funny. Play a respectful “Who am I?” picture guessing game.
Week 13: Who Am I? Signed Clues
Combine descriptions and WH questions in a signed clue game. Learners identify who is being described and explain the clue they understood.
Week 14: Introduction to Classifiers
Discover how a handshape can show a person, animal or object in space. Watch teacher models and a short signed story, then try simple movement descriptions.
Week 15: Classifiers in Motion
Use beginner-friendly classifiers to show where a person or object goes. Follow a picture PPT path and create a short movement scene with clear signing space.
Week 16: Facial Expression Changes Meaning
Practice facial grammar for yes/no and WH questions and use expression to show feelings in a story. Compare how the same signs change meaning with facial cues.
Week 17: Characters and Role Shift
Watch a brief signed story with two characters. Use body shift, eye gaze and facial expression to show who is signing, then try a simple two-character exchange.
Week 18: Beginning, Middle and End
Sequence a familiar signed story with FIRST, NEXT and FINISH. Combine actions, descriptions and character feelings to retell a clear three-part story.
Week 19: Sign Challenge and Story Comprehension
Respond to signed directions, descriptions and story questions with less voice support. Review classmates’ favorite vocabulary through games and a selected YouTube signed story.
Week 20: Voice-Off Conversation Practice
Use short voice-off rounds to ask questions, describe an object and solve a picture mystery. Practice repair strategies such as AGAIN, SLOW and SHOW-ME.
Unit 3: End: ASL Project and Showcase
Week 21: Choose Your Final ASL Project
Choose a signed story, conversation or show-and-tell. Plan a beginning, middle and end and select familiar vocabulary, new ASL 2 skills and optional picture slides.
Week 22: Build the Project
Draft and practice the project with teacher support. Add clear descriptions, a question or response, expressive face and signing space; check that viewers can follow the meaning.
Week 23: Rehearse and Improve
Rehearse with a partner or teacher. Use feedback to improve pacing, eye gaze, facial expression, transitions and story clarity.
Week 24: ASL 2 Showcase and Celebration
Present a signed story, conversation or show-and-tell. Answer a classmate’s question, reflect on growth from ASL 1, and celebrate new ASL 2 skills.