ASL.4. Emerging Pre-K-3

ASL.4.Em1 - Uses role-shifting and/or non-manual markers to represent categories

ASL.4.Em2 - Demonstrates understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms)

ASL.4.Em3 - Distinguishes shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action

ASL.4.Em4 - Demonstrates understanding of sign families by relating them to one another based on commonalities in parameters

ASL.4.Em5 - Distinguish shades of meaning through non-manual markers

ASL.4.Em6 - Understands and uses figurative language versus literal language using metaphors, similes, and analogies

ASL.4.Em7 - Identifies real-life connections between words and their use

ASL.4.Em8 - Distinguishes shades of meaning among closely related inflectional verbs and adjectives

ASL.4.Em9 - Manipulates phonological parameters to play on signs

ASL.4.Em10 - Distinguishes literal and nonliteral meanings of signs and phrases in context

ASL.4.Em11 - Distinguishes shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty