Formulating questions using appropriate English grammar is extremely challenging for my students with hearing loss. My students often omit the auxiliary or use the incorrect form when asking questions (ex. "You have?" vs. "Do you have", do/does/did). They also struggle with word order, most often leaving words in statement order and using rising intonation (ex. "It is..." vs. "Is it?"). Playing games like "Guess Who" are great for practicing question formation. Even better, you can work on pronouns (he/she) and verb agreement (has/have). If you watch the video you will see I use signed English rather than ASL. This is done to visually highlight the grammar, function words, and word order.
This Thanksgiving version of "Guess Who" and "Guess What", created by K Ratliff, are available on Teachers Pay Teachers for free download. They are available for a variety of holidays and season. These holiday and seasonal versions are a fun, motivating way to practice question formation, pronoun use, and verb agreement while also targeting relevant vocabulary. I try to encourage the students to think categorically or look for similarities so that they can eliminate more than one picture at a time. I have the students use Bingo markers to cover up the pictures that they have eliminated.
This activity is also great for working on auditory skill development with students that are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. It has a closed visual set to support listening, while targeting sentence level discrimination and comprehension.
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