Designing Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction to Support Signed Literacy for Deaf Learners
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This design case documents the conception, development, and iterative refinement of Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction (SISI), a framework designed to support the growth of signed literacy among deaf students in the United States. The core literacy principles—strategic, interactive, and linguistic—were reimagined for the signed modality, treating video texts as a primary literacy activity. The design evolved through multiple cycles of prototyping and classroom enactment with PreK-3 teachers and deaf students, during which a collection of artifacts, including a 45-item SISI instructional checklist, scaffolds, mentor texts, rubrics, an ASL skill inventory, and a professional development and coaching model were developed and refined. Data from classroom observations, compositions of video texts, and teacher feedback illuminate both the affordances and limits of the design.
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