These are some words and phrases you'll hear me or your child using, or see in homework or notices coming home. Have something we should add to the list? Let me know! This is an ongoing, growing resource for families.
Literacy:
Phonemic awareness: the ability to hear sounds in a word
Segment sounds: say all the sounds you hear in a word. Example: The sounds in cat are /c/ /a/ /t/
Rhyme: words that end the same. Examples: rat and cat, dog and log, pig and dig
Word family: A list of all the words that end the same. A word family has all the words for a particular rhyme. Example word family: The it family- bit, fit, hit, kit, lit, mit, nit, pit, quit, sit, wit, zit
CVC word: CVC stands for consonant/vowel/consonant. These are the easiest words for beginning readers. Examples: cat, big, run, wet, got
CVCe: consonant/vowel/consonant/silent E. Examples: ripe, bike, poke, dine
CCVC: consonant/consonant/vowel/consonant. These words have blends at the beginning: slip, drop.
Sight words: Also known as high frequency words, these are words that are seen in books often and cannot be read using their typical sounds. Examples: would, was, two. A chart of Kindergarten sight words is in your child's BEE folder. Your child is responsible for reading and spelling these words at the end of Kindergarten.
Blending words: When we read a word without our voice stopping between each sound, we call that blending. It is something that good readers do!
Letter blend: sometimes words have consonants stuck together next to each other, like in the word slip. We call these blends. Other examples: cr, st, dr, pl, br as in the words crop, stop, drip, plug, and brag.
TTQA: This stands for Turn The Question Around. We learn to use the words in the question to start our answer when we are writing. If the question is, “Who is the cat in the hat?” The answer, using TTQA, would be: “The cat and the hat is…..”
Math:
Counters: Anything used to represent a number for counting: coins, beads, cubes, blocks
Tens-frame: a rectangular box made up of ten tiny boxes: five on the top and five on the bottom. Counters go in the boxes to show a number. Children use tens-frames as a quick way to see a number. They should be able to look at a partially filled tens-frame and tell you the number without counting each one. picture of a Tens-Frame
Double tens-frame: two tens-frame, one on top of the other, to show teen numbers and numbers up to 20.
Hundreds Chart: A chart that has ten columns and ten rows. A number is in each box, from 1-100. We use hundreds charts to recognize patterns and reinforce the counting sequence. There is one in your child's BEE folder.
Teen numbers: We consider teen numbers to be any number from 11-19. A teen number consists of a Ten and some Ones. It's important to remember 11 and 12 are teens even though they don't have the word teen in their names.
Looking for something else? Let me know (you won't be the only one wondering) and I'll add it to the list!
Literacy:
Phonemic awareness: the ability to hear sounds in a word
Segment sounds: say all the sounds you hear in a word. Example: The sounds in cat are /c/ /a/ /t/
Rhyme: words that end the same. Examples: rat and cat, dog and log, pig and dig
Word family: A list of all the words that end the same. A word family has all the words for a particular rhyme. Example word family: The it family- bit, fit, hit, kit, lit, mit, nit, pit, quit, sit, wit, zit
CVC word: CVC stands for consonant/vowel/consonant. These are the easiest words for beginning readers. Examples: cat, big, run, wet, got
CVCe: consonant/vowel/consonant/silent E. Examples: ripe, bike, poke, dine
CCVC: consonant/consonant/vowel/consonant. These words have blends at the beginning: slip, drop.
Sight words: Also known as high frequency words, these are words that are seen in books often and cannot be read using their typical sounds. Examples: would, was, two. A chart of Kindergarten sight words is in your child's BEE folder. Your child is responsible for reading and spelling these words at the end of Kindergarten.
Blending words: When we read a word without our voice stopping between each sound, we call that blending. It is something that good readers do!
Letter blend: sometimes words have consonants stuck together next to each other, like in the word slip. We call these blends. Other examples: cr, st, dr, pl, br as in the words crop, stop, drip, plug, and brag.
TTQA: This stands for Turn The Question Around. We learn to use the words in the question to start our answer when we are writing. If the question is, “Who is the cat in the hat?” The answer, using TTQA, would be: “The cat and the hat is…..”
Math:
Counters: Anything used to represent a number for counting: coins, beads, cubes, blocks
Tens-frame: a rectangular box made up of ten tiny boxes: five on the top and five on the bottom. Counters go in the boxes to show a number. Children use tens-frames as a quick way to see a number. They should be able to look at a partially filled tens-frame and tell you the number without counting each one. picture of a Tens-Frame
Double tens-frame: two tens-frame, one on top of the other, to show teen numbers and numbers up to 20.
Hundreds Chart: A chart that has ten columns and ten rows. A number is in each box, from 1-100. We use hundreds charts to recognize patterns and reinforce the counting sequence. There is one in your child's BEE folder.
Teen numbers: We consider teen numbers to be any number from 11-19. A teen number consists of a Ten and some Ones. It's important to remember 11 and 12 are teens even though they don't have the word teen in their names.
Looking for something else? Let me know (you won't be the only one wondering) and I'll add it to the list!