What are various approaches to teaching reading to deaf students?
This may seem obvious but teachers need to provide their students with THINGS to read. One of the most important sources of information for Kenyans is the newspaper. Even nursery and infant classes will enjoy looking at the pictures. Teachers can encourage discussion of the pictures and try to predict what the text is about. Teachers can also engage their students in creating and publishing classroom books. All you need are ideas for stories, paper, pencils (and coloured pencils or crayons for aesthetic purposes), magazine pictures, and tape (to bind the book and/or laminate for durability). Hardback exercise books also make great homemade classroom books. Read aloud using KSL to your students. This means signing the stories from books in KSL. Remember that it is more important to make the story interesting to the students than to make it a perfect translation from English to KSL. Basal Readers provide students with simple language and you are usually able to have several copies of the
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