Kindergarten literacy jargon?

[beetiger]

My son is talking to me about there being "pop-up" words in books, and telling me that "the" and "I" are some of them, but can't articulate to me what that actually means. Is this a term for early sight reading words or something?

It's very confusing. I have a son who is quite literate, but seems to be learning all these pre-literacy/early literacy learning methods, and is convinced he's learning something new and essential about text, like that vowels can be written in different colors and there are "pop-up" words.

I'm confused.

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[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

As someone said above, they are "popcorn" words because they pop-up all over. Alan's kindergarten class does one a week, although I've gone over the list we were given for the year with him already. I thought we were the only place with that odd term for sight words.

It does sound like he's an advanced reader though for his age, I'd talk to his teacher about that.