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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[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

He's reading Geronimo Stilton and they have him pegged at a D? I revise my estimate - I'd ask them to talk to the grade three teachers and start testing him around a 24 (M or N, I believe - I'm not sure because most of my kids start higher than that.) If they pegged Elizabeth at a D, I'd believe them because it meshes with what I've seen of her reading, but in my professional opinion, Rhys' independent reading level is at least grade two and probably higher.

The kindergarten teachers may not know how to conduct the higher tests if they've never taught grade two or three, so push for them to have a spec. ed. teacher or one of the grade two classroom teachers do that testing. He'll need access to their classroom libraries, too.