The purpose of this book is to engage the learner of the American language with more than just their eyes and ears. The Hands to Spell-Read-Write series brings hands-on-learning to the American language by utilizing American Sign Language (ASL) Manual Alphabet to learn to spell new words. Once the spelling of a word is memorized, then the ability to read and write it becomes easier for the learner. Hands-on-learning has been proven countless times to be the superior way of learning anything and research has shown that utilizing the ASL Manual Alphabet and the use of ASL/Signed Exact English (SEE) signs to learn and spell new words has been very affective by providing the learner with a visual and kinesthetic/tactile representation of a word.
The goal of this simple workbook is to help teach the spelling of the Primer Dolch sight words. For each word, the activities are: