DHH Resource Details

Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading is a literacy program that supplements a school’s literacy curriculum and is specifically desgined for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students from kindergarten through second grade. 
 There are two components to this program:
 - The 3-day per week Fingerspelling program enhances phonological awareness of fingerspelled words, which increases expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills and identification of printed words.
- The complementary 2-day per week Reading Comprehension program provides additional reading opportunities using fingerspelling words in sentences and stories that are developed through each unit.

There are four levels of the fingerspelling program: Entry Level, Level 1A, Level 1B, and Level 2. 
The first-grade goals and objectives apply to both the Level 1A and Level 1B.