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
there - Heart Word
This word has the "ere" unit, which can say a few different sounds. In this word, it is making the "air" sound.
where - Heart Word
This word has the "ere" unit, which can say a few different sounds. In this word, it is making the "air" sound.
say - Temporary Heart Word
For now, students need to remember that "ay" says the long a sound (a common pattern students will see in many words, like day and play).
will - Flash Word
This word is decodable using regular consonant (including double consonant sounds, which we are learning about next week) and short vowel sounds.
his - Heart Word
The "s" in this word says /z/, which is the "heart part." Students also see this in other words, such as "was" and "has".
This week we will be learning the twin letters -ff, -ll, ss, and zz. These letters make one sound when together
This week we will be learning about 2-syllable words with closed syllables (VC/CV). Examples of such words are cannot, picnic, and rabbit.
We will continue discussing linear measurement using various non standard tools to measure objects with (e.g., snap cubes, paper clips, tiles).
Later in the week, we will be learning about measuring area. We will be exploring area using a variety of materials (e.g., cards, tiles, cubes).
We will continue to explore cycles in our daily lives and throughout the year. We will discuss activities in different seasons and seasonal cycles of weather. We will also begin to discuss animal behaviour in different seasons.