What it is: Signed Stories is an excellent online story site that I learned about from The Techie Classroom blog. Signed Stories makes hundreds of children’s stories available online accessible in British Sign Language and in text, pictures and sound. This site has it all. Students can read the story, watch it signed, and listen to the story. This enriches literacy on a variety of levels. Deaf and hearing alike can benefit from this excellent free website. These are published stories and include a variety of popular titles. Books are sorted into categories including adventure, baby and toddler, fairytales and folktales, families and friendships, funny, open house, slimy scary, or students can browse all books alphabetically.
How to integrate Signed Stories into the classroom: Signed Stories is a fantastic add to any literacy classroom. Students can read, listen to, or watch a book signed. The site is accessible to all language learners and has engaging popular stories that students will love. Expand your classroom library by pulling up Signed Stories during reading and allowing students to read online. Signed Stories also adds great discussion to the classroom about different ways that people learn. Students can expand their sign language vocabulary by listening to familiar stories and watching them being signed. This is also a great site to send home. Kids can practice their reading even when their isn’t an adult available to read with them.
Tips: Check out the Resources page for links to other interactive story sites.
Please leave a comment and share how you are using Signed Stories in your classroom.
Love this! Our school teaches sign language and we will definitely use this!
I was so surprised when I came upon this site earlier this year, because I had no idea such a rich resource existed. It’s a wonderful place for kids to enjoy story.
Thanks for the reminder, Kelly.
What a fabulous resource for students! Absolutely brilliant.
Sites like these are so important to help children with literacy! Thank you for sharing!
I absolutely LOVE this site!! Thank you so much for sharing it! The stories may be a bit young for my seventh graders, but several of them are teaching themselves sign language. They will love this!!!!
Thank you!
Yeah, even though the stories are a little young for 7th graders, this is a great place for them to practice interpreting sign language and signing familiar stories.