SDs for sight reading???

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Hey All,

I'm hoping that someone has some ideas for SDs we could use to teach beginning

sight reading.

I'm thinking of it as a kind of receptive ID.Lulu is nonvocal with severe

apraxia, so I can't ask her to spell out or say words unless I am asking her to

vocalize the word. So for beginning sight reading (she can already sight-read a

number of words she's picked up in her preschool environment). Thus, we are

starting with recptive ID for sight words.

For example, if we used an array of 3 printed text words and ask her to

receptively identify them, what word or words do you use? I was thinking

something along these lines, but am rather unsure:

- Find the card that reads Mama

- Which one says Mama?

- Show me the one that spells Mama.

Not sure what key words to teach here -- say, read, spell? All fo the above, in

order to mix and match?

I have read a number of great posts in the group archives, many by of

Talking Words, that have been really very, very helpful. I've just ordered the

book she recommends, Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide

for Parents and Teachers.

Any further insight into sight reading SDs, teaching sight words, or additional

resources would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

Best,

Theresa