Invite students to visit a searchable sign language database and dictionary. Other hearing-impaired people learn to "speak" with hand gestures. However, some hearing-impaired people learn to speak by reading lips, and imitating the way our mouths move when we speak. Many people that have hearing loss or are deaf are not able to communicate by speaking, since humans usually learn to speak by imitating the sound of the words they hear. After everyone has been a listener, ask students to write short stories inspired by - and including - at least five of the different sounds they experienced. (You may want to monitor blindfolded students closely, or ask student pairs to choose a location and sit before the listener is blindfolded.) Encourage students to use rich, descriptive language in their observations. Ask one student in each pair - “the listener” - to close his or her eyes (or put on a blindfold) and describe all the sounds that he or she hears to the other student, who will record them. What different sounds did each person hear along your journey? Next, have pairs of students take turns observing the sounds in different areas of your classroom or school more closely. Then have members of the class compare their experiences.
Ask students to pay attention to all the different sounds they hear along the way. Invite students to experience a heightened awareness of all the important sounds around them with a sound walk through several areas of your school, such as the hallway, cafeteria, library, and playground. Hearing allows us to communicate with others and to navigate our world. Encourage them to name sounds which are pleasant to them (and why), and which are unpleasant, and record these on a T-chart. After sharing some examples with students, ask, “What do these sound words mean to you? How do they make you feel? Excited? Annoyed? Happy?” Invite students to brainstorm as many sound words as they can think of. This onomatopoeia enriches language, allowing us to capture sound in writing.
Start off your unit by looking at words that imitate the sounds they represent, such as hiss, rustle, growl, and chirp.
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