Give Me A Sign
Publication Information
Author:  Samoyault, Tiphaine	Illustrator:  Samoyault, Tiphaine
Title:  Give Me A Sign	Date:  1995
Publisher:  Viking	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-670-87466-3	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    nonfiction, symbolic language, easy reading
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
This colorfully illustrated book explores the universality of the language of signs from uses of signs in everyday life to wordless pictograms. A glossary provides useful definitions.
Teaching Ideas:
Students could collect and/or invent symbols from the suggestions of shape, color, prohibition. Computer emoticons offer well-known examples to apply the points made about symbolic language. Are they effective in communicating their functions?
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