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BSL Curriculum Progression 3

Curriculum area	Outcome
Module A: What is British Sign Language (BSL)?	To have some idea about the differences between BSL and English Understanding that all languages borrow words and signs from each other. Understanding visual-gestural language parameters, conventions and grammar.
Module A: What is British Sign Language (BSL)?	To be able to recognise other peers sign names and understand why they are used. Learning how depicting signs, some verbs, pronouns and make use of spatial relationships
Module B: Deaf Identity Feelings	To be able to express what it is like and how they feel being Deaf.
	Learn about Deaf roles to support identity
	To meet other Deaf adults, understand that there are others, discuss and ask questions for observational and receptive skills
	To critically watch a programme and comment on it To understand what an interpreter is
Module C: Language awareness and grammatical features: Handshapes, classifiers, placement, Non Manual Function (NMF), facial expression	Recognise that groups of words combine to make clauses and include nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs.
	To be able to describe different rooms using BSL principles, assessing BSL levels for placements, referents, location, eye gaze and enumeration
	To be able to describe from pictures and follow descriptions and identify errors for receptive skills
	To be able to integrate NMF in relation to handshapes, position, modification and answer questions
	To be able to sign from picture sequences using BSL principles including size, colour, shape, number, and position
	To recognise that groups of words combine to make clauses and include nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs and distinguish between statements and questions based on NMF
	To engage with imaginative experience by participating in, responding to, and creating a range of texts
	To be able to act out texts in appropriate BSL levels
Module D: The role of language	To compare deaf lives in the past with the present