Session 7

A growing body of research supports the importance of including phonemic awareness and phonic activities in literacy instruction for students with Down syndrome. This month we tackle blending sounds together to create words (e.g., /c/ /a/ /t/ = “cat”) and use word families to practice making new words by replacing initial letters (e.g., /c/ + /at/ = “cat” but /m/ + /at/ = “mat”). ..