Week 6 of 8
Week 6
Kindergarten → 1st Grade · Subtraction within 10 and Cvc words
Math
Subtraction Within 10
Taking away from a starting number of 10 or less. Late kindergarten.
The mistake to watch for. Counting down and including the starting number, so 8 − 3 becomes 6 — the child counts "eight, seven, six" for three steps instead of counting back three from eight.
How to help. Count back on a number line, touching the lines between numbers rather than the numbers themselves. Three jumps, not three names.
A worked example
Try 9 − 4. Start at 9 and count back four: 8, 7, 6, 5. So 9 − 4 = 5.
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
- subtract
- To take one number away from another to find how many are left.
- minus
- The sign ( − ) that means take away.
- difference
- The answer you get when you subtract.
- equal
- The same amount. The sign = means "is equal to".
- remain
- To be left after some are taken away.
- 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
Crane Fly
A short animals 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.