What is Peter’s Picture?

•  An interactive educational adventure video series  designed to help preschool-aged children develop American Sign Language and literacy skills.
•   Each video has the same structure, but differ in the focal theme and vocabulary words
• Designed for visual learners using a visual language (American Sign Language, ASL)
•   Each video targets key early ASL and literacy skills, including vocabulary, letter recognition, concepts of print, comprehension, and grammatical features of ASL
•   Targeted to 3-6 year old children
• Models fluent ASL
•  Models Deaf cultural rules
• Shows Deaf characters interacting with other Deaf characters (both children and adults)
• Incorporates visual effects (flashing lights, sparkles etc.)

Peter’s Picture Incorporates Research Based Practices

• Models a literacy rich environment
• Interactive: Asks questions of the audience/pause/wait for a response then confirm
• Makes connections between ASL, fingerspelling and English print
• Provides concrete visual information (pictures/print/real objects in the environment)
• Makes connections between the story and children’s lives
• Discusses/models problem solving skills

Targeted Skills Within Each Episode (Golos & Moses, 2013a)

Episode	Letter of the Day	Vocabulary	ASL/Cultural Knowledge
Our Trip to the Farm	F	Farm, pumpkin, corn, flower, tractor	How to get attention (tap shoulder)
Our Trip to Paulie’s Pizza	P	Pizza, cheese, napkin, pepperoni,  table	How to get attention (flash lights/tap table)/Introductions
Our Trip to the Library	L	Library, librarian,  library card, quiet, borrow	Introductions/ASL handshapes, quiet in library
Our Trip to Country Bob’s Backyard	B	Backyard, egg, goat, chicken, rabbit	Introductions/How videophones work, classifiers-chicken walk

Skills Across Videos (Golos & Moses, 2013a)

Skill or Knowledge Are	How Skill or Knowledge Area is Addressed
Concepts of Print	Asking about and explaining that books have titles, where to start reading, and direction of print
Sequencing	Explicitly sequencing the 5 main events that take place  during each adventure
Vocabulary (related to print)	Asking about, discussing or explaining the meaning of title, sentence, page, word, story, book
Story Elements	Discussing characters (who they are), setting, and solving problems within the plot
Deaf Culture	Demonstrating/discussing turn taking and ways of getting attention; Modeling Deaf characters interacting with each other in ASL and in a Deaf culturally friendly environment. Modeling Deaf characters communicating through videophones