Give Me A Sign |
Publication Information
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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:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
nonfiction, symbolic language, easy reading
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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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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