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Honors ASL 3 Students Bring Storytelling to Life
Maranatha’s Honors ASL 3 students recently had the opportunity to put their learning into practice in a meaningful real-world setting.
As the culminating experience of their storytelling unit, students visited Utah Street Span School in Los Angeles, where they signed children’s stories for two Deaf classrooms: a K-3rd grade class and a 3rd-5th grade class.
Storytelling holds a special place in Deaf culture. Whether sharing personal experiences, humor, or folklore, stories help pass down values, identity, and connection within the community. For ASL students, learning to tell stories is about more than vocabulary. It is an important part of developing both linguistic fluency and cultural understanding.
Through this unit, Maranatha students practiced key elements of expressive signing, including non-manual markers, sentence structure, transitions, timing, facial grammar, and emotional expression. Standing before young students and communicating clearly without spoken language challenged them to use everything they have learned over the past three years in a powerful and authentic way.
It was a memorable experience for our students, and we are proud of the skill, confidence, and care they demonstrated.
