Week 2 of 8
Week 2
Kindergarten → 1st Grade · Counting 11 20 and Cvc words
Math
Counting 11 to 20
Counting past ten, where the number names stop being predictable. Second half of kindergarten.
The mistake to watch for. "Eleven, twelve, thirteen…" is memorized as a song, so children write 11 as "110" — they hear "one, one" and write both digits separately.
How to help. Build each teen number with ten objects in a row plus the extras. Thirteen is ten and three, and the numeral shows exactly that.
A worked example
Look at 14, 15, ___, 17. After fifteen comes sixteen, so the missing number is 16. Teen numbers are a ten plus some ones — 16 is ten and six.
Reading & language
CVC Words
Reading and building simple consonant-vowel-consonant words like cat, hop, and bug. Late kindergarten into early first grade.
The mistake to watch for. Reading only the first and last letter and guessing the middle vowel — turning "hop" into "hip" or "hap".
How to help. Have your child touch each letter and say its sound before blending: h - o - p, then "hop" all together. Skipping the vowel is the single most common decoding error at this stage.
A worked example
Unscramble o-g-d. Try the sounds in order: d-o-g. The letters make 'dog' — consonant, vowel, consonant, which is what CVC stands for.
Words for this week
- count
- To say numbers in order to find out how many there are.
- number
- A word or symbol that tells how many, like 5 or twelve.
- next
- The one that comes right after.
- ten
- The number 10, one more than nine.
- twenty
- The number 20, two tens.
- vowel
- The letters a, e, i, o and u. Every syllable has a vowel sound.
- consonant
- Any letter that is not a vowel, like b, c, d or f.
- letter
- One of the symbols we use to write words, like a, b or c.
- sound
- What you hear when you say a letter or a word.
- word
- A group of letters that has a meaning.
Read this week
Skin
A short the human body article from our Learn library, chosen for this reading level. Read it together, then ask your child to tell you one new thing they learned.