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ASL Home & Rooms

Sixth graders learn signs for the home in ASL — HOME, KITCHEN, BEDROOM, BATHROOM, DOOR — so they can describe where they live and the rooms they use every day.

Grade 6Home & Rooms50 minutes1 class periodACTFL / Visual LanguageExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Sign the rooms.
  • ✓Describe a home.
  • ✓Learn compound signs.
  • ✓Sign about your house.
Essential Question

Welcome home! How do you sign HOME, KITCHEN, and the rooms of a house in ASL?

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Vocabulary Terms
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Standards Aligned
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Interactive Task
Explore · Interactive

The Home Explorer

Project this and tap each. Have students make each home sign.

🏠 Explore the home — tap eachTry it

The Lesson · Visual-Language Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Sign · Reflect)

50 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Warm-Up — Welcome Home

5 min

How do you sign HOME and the rooms of a house in ASL?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask about their home.
  • Ask how to sign rooms.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Share.
  • Guess.
  • Get ready.
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Present — Home & Rooms

12 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to the Home Explorer.
  • Make each sign.
  • Note BEDROOM = BED + ROOM.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Tap each.
  • Copy.
  • Note it.
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Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Sign a room you use.
  • Match rooms to pictures.
  • Sign along.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sign it.
  • Match.
  • Try.
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Sign — Sign

12 min

Students sign.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Sign HOME and KITCHEN.
  • Describe your home.
  • Sign to a partner.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sign it.
  • Describe.
  • Sign.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Sign a room.
  • Say which one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sign one.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Novice-Mid).

ACTFL
Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand home signs.

ACTFL
Cultures 2.1

Explore homes.

ACTFL
Connections 3.1

Connect to daily life.

ACTFL
Communication 1.1

Interpersonal: describe a home.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Room sign photo cards.
  • Model each sign.
  • Use a mirror.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with HOME and DOOR.
  • Make one at a time.
  • Copy together.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add LIVING ROOM.
  • Sign a home tour.
  • Draw and label rooms.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🏠A house diagram
  • 💻The Home Explorer
  • 🪩A mirror (optional)
  • ✏️Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

homewhere you liveHOMEcheek to cheekKITCHENflip a flat hand overBEDROOMBED + ROOMBATHROOMshake the “T” handshapeDOORtwo “B” hands swing openROOMbox shape with the handshousea building you live in
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
How do you sign DOOR?
Hold two “B” hands together, then swing one open.
QUESTION 2
How do you sign BEDROOM?
Sign BED, then ROOM.
QUESTION 3
How do you sign KITCHEN?
Flip a flat hand over on your other palm.

Reflect: home & rooms.

Have students sign HOME and two rooms of their house. A printable ASL home sheet is in the World Languages library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ ASL Home & RoomsPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: BATHROOM, BEDROOM, DOOR, home, HOME, house, KITCHEN, ROOM
  1. a building you live in
  2. where you live
  3. flip a flat hand over
  4. cheek to cheek
  5. box shape with the hands
  6. shake the “T” handshape
  7. BED + ROOM
  8. two “B” hands swing open

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. How do you sign DOOR?
  2. How do you sign BEDROOM?
  3. How do you sign KITCHEN?
Answer key — Part A: 1) house · 2) home · 3) KITCHEN · 4) HOME · 5) ROOM · 6) BATHROOM · 7) BEDROOM · 8) DOOR
Part B: 1) Hold two “B” hands together, then swing one open. 2) Sign BED, then ROOM. 3) Flip a flat hand over on your other palm.