Description Counting is an essential concept for beginning readers. This book introduces beginning readers to numbers, and how to sign them using American Sign Language (ASL), the language commonly used by the deaf community. Learning how to sign numbers will help kids to communicate a variety of observations and needs, from how many birds they see to how many carrots they want. Each number is paired with a photograph to aid in word recognition, as well as illustrations and pictures of the correct hand placement and movement for the ASL translation. This book is sure to be a useful guide to beginning readers who want to learn sign language