High-frequency words are words that students will encounter often when reading and writing. These words often, but not always, have irregular or uncommon spelling patterns making some of the sounds. Over the next few weeks, we will be reviewing some of the most common words that students probably worked on in Kindergarten.
Flash Words - Words that have regular spelling patterns and can be sounded out, but are so common that it is valuable for students to know them on sight.
Heart Words = Words that have irregular or uncommon parts that students need to remember. Often, some parts of these words are regular and students just have to remember the "tricky part."
Temporary Heart Words - Words where the tricky parts are only tricky because students have not yet learned or mastered those phonics patterns.
Learn more about heart words here: https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic
first - Temporary Heart Word
if - Flash Word
as - Flash Word
be - Flash Word
Over the next several weeks, we will be learning about consonant blends. Blends are when two letters blend together - they still each make their own sound, but they can be harder for beginning readers to hear both sounds because they kind of "stick" together. During the first part of the week, our focus will be on s-blends that are found at the end of words, like in last, lisp, and musk. The end of the week will focus on t and l blends that are found at the end of words, like in next and tilt. These can be especially hard for children to hear when reading and writing.
Monday/Tuesday
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
Below are some "just for fun" holiday-themed Boom Cards. Some may require reading help!
The passages below are basically the same, but the one marked with an E is a little less challenging. Students who need shorter sentences and fewer tricky words are given the E passage.
Click on the purple bars to access the different themed libraries. Have fun reading!
We will continue to represent numbers using 10 frames and base 10 materials.