Moses Goes to School (Moses Goes to)

Creator: Isaac Millman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 595239

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.4

ISBN: 0374350698
EAN: 9780374350697
ASIN: 0374350698

Publication Date: August 29, 2000
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

A day at a school for the deaf is like a day at any school

Moses goes to a special school, a public school for the deaf. He and all of his classmates are deaf or hard-of-hearing, but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot to say to each other! They communicate in American Sign Language (ASL), using visual signs and facial expressions. Isaac Millman follows Moses through a school day, telling the story in pictures and written English, and in ASL, introducing hearing children to the signs for some of the key words and ideas. At the end is a favorite song -- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" -- in sign!

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars

Boring Book December 22, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I just adopted a 5 year old deaf girl. I've had a hard time finding a book that she can relate to. I was hoping this book would focus more on being deaf, wearing hearing aids, showing the kids using ASL, what makes a deaf child/school different than a hearing one, etc. Instead it's a boring book about going to school, typing a letter on a computer, and learning to sign "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". Boring, Boring, Boring! I am so happy that I only bought this one "Moses" book and I will be returning it tomorrow.

4 out of 5 stars

My students loved! June 15, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I teach elementary age deaf and hard-of-hearing children and I have to say they loved this book. They thought seeing a deaf student as the main character in a book was something they could relate to. I used it in my class to talk about the different types of schools deaf children could go to, also how they could become a teacher for the deaf one day. The extra pictures with simple signing sentences were also fun to learn. My favorite, teaching the kids to sign Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

5 out of 5 stars

Linking Movement to Literature - A Book for All Children July 24, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

Moses Goes to School is a book written for children, and its language is well suited to informing the understandings of hearing children. Far from being a linguistic primer in the morphology of American Sign Language written for college students and professors, it is instead a wonderful for way for children to physically interact with literature. It is certain that Millman was considering the linguistic development and understanding of children and their language when writing the book. From a teacher's and linguistic researcher's perspective, this book is extremely stimulating and socially valuable piece of a small literature on children and ASL.

For teachers, this book, and others by Millman (Moses Goes to the Circus, Moses Goes to a Concert) allow developing thinkers (primarily 6-9) to understand language from a new perspective, and to have a new form of language that they can share with peers. In addition, sharing this book with a classroom allows teachers to use sign language to manage a classroom, and can give a classroom its own character and signature style.