ASL 3 Advanced — Kids (Ages 7–12) · 24-Week Course
$10 per class or $240 for all 24 classes
Led by fluent Deaf, hard-of-hearing, CODA, and hearing instructors, students will build conversational fluency, receptive understanding, storytelling, classifiers, role shifting, facial grammar, fingerspelling, and Deaf cultural knowledge.
What Your Learner Will Do
- Hold natural and detailed conversations using advanced ASL vocabulary and grammar.
- Improve receptive skills by understanding different signing speeds and styles.
- Use classifiers, role shifting, spatial referencing, and facial grammar accurately.
Prerequisites: Students should have completed ASL Series 1 and 2 with ASL Kids Club or have equivalent intermediate ASL experience. Learners should be comfortable with basic conversations, fingerspelling, numbers, common vocabulary, ASL sentence structure
Syllabus
6 Units · 24 Lessons · over 24 Weeks
Unit 1: Fluency Foundations
Week 1: Voice-Off Immersion and Baseline
Students establish visual classroom routines, practice clarification strategies, and complete a friendly baseline of expressive and receptive ASL skills.
Week 2: Natural Conversation and Repair
Students practice turn-taking, follow-up questions, topic changes, and ways to repair misunderstandings during short voice-off conversations.
Week 3: Fingerspelling in Context
Students build receptive fingerspelling skills by using word shape, rhythm, movement, and context to recognize familiar names and words.
Week 4: Number Fluency and Precision
Students interpret and produce numbers used for time, dates, money, measurements, scores, fractions, and percentages.
Unit 2: Visual Grammar and Story Structure
Week 5: Building a Visual Narrative
Students organize a short ASL story with a clear setting, sequence, problem, climax, and resolution.
Week 6: Role Shifting and Character Perspective
Students use body shift, eye gaze, posture, and facial expression to portray two characters clearly.
Week 7: Spatial Referencing and Directional Verbs
Students establish people and objects in signing space and use directional verbs to show who does what to whom.
Week 8: Descriptive Classifiers
Students use classifier handshapes and facial expression to describe the shape, size, texture, and arrangement of objects.
Unit 3: Classifiers and Expressive Grammar
Week 9: Movement and Handling Classifiers
Students use classifiers to show how people and objects move and how common objects are handled.
Week 10: Non-Manual Markers and Question Types
Students practice facial grammar for yes/no questions, WH-questions, conditional statements, rhetorical questions, and negation.
Week 11: Comparing and Giving Opinions
Students compare options and express preferences, reasons, examples, agreement, and respectful disagreement.
Week 12: Explaining a Process
Students give clear visual instructions using sequence markers, spatial organization, classifiers, and checks for understanding.
Unit 4: Real-Life Communication
Week 13: School and Community Scenarios
Students practice ASL for schedules, group work, requests, permissions, announcements, and everyday problem-solving.
Week 14: Travel and Wayfinding
Students give directions, explain routes, compare transportation choices, and respond to simple delays or changes.
Week 15: Emergencies and Self-Advocacy
Students practice sharing essential safety information and requesting communication access in age-appropriate scenarios.
Week 16: Receptive Strategies for Longer Messages
Students use context, prediction, key signs, fingerspelling, and numbers to find the main idea and important details.
Unit 5: Deaf Culture and Creative Expression
Week 17: Signer Variation and Concept Accuracy
Students explore accepted sign variation and practice choosing natural ASL concepts based on meaning and context.
Week 18: Visual Vernacular and Creative Expression
Students experiment with cinematic perspective, rhythm, scale, and movement to create a short visual scene.
Week 19: Deaf History and Community Voices
Students learn about Deaf President Now and connect Deaf leadership, language rights, and community advocacy.
Week 20: Accessibility Design and Advocacy
Students identify communication barriers and propose respectful visual-access solutions for everyday environments.
Unit 6: Mastery and Showcase
Week 21: Creative Story Project Planning
Students plan an original ASL story with a purpose, audience, setting, characters, conflict, classifiers, and role shifting.
Week 22: Story Workshop and Revision
Students use peer and teacher feedback to improve clarity, pacing, referent consistency, transitions, and expression.
Week 23: Sustained Conversation Challenge
Students maintain a five-minute voice-off conversation using follow-up questions, elaboration, repair, and smooth topic transitions.
Week 24: Final Showcase and Receptive Evaluation
Students present an original ASL story, demonstrate receptive understanding, celebrate progress, and set a next learning goal.