Kindergarten power words

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IRLA

The GLP teachers use the reading framework IRLA (Independent Reading Level Assessment) developed by the American Reading Company to assess children's current reading levels and determine instructional paths. The data provided by IRLA assessments tells the teacher where a student is currently reading, what skills they are secure in at that reading level, and provides a sequence of skills/behaviors the student needs to learn in order to continue to grow as a reader.  Families can assist their child in making strides in their independent reading abilities by reviewing power words, logging nightly at home IRLA reading steps and encouraging and praising your child's efforts in reading.  

POWER WORDS

WHAT ARE THEY AND WHY DOES MY CHILD NEED TO KNOW THEM?

“Power Words” (also known as Dolch words, Fry words, popcorn words, and high frequency words) are a set of frequently occurring words that children are encouraged to recognize by sight, rather than decode using other word identification strategies. These words make up 50-75% of the words included in children’s books. When a child truly knows a sight word, he or she can recall it within three seconds and will not need to sound it out.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT THAT CHILDREN MEMORIZE SIGHT WORDS?

Learning to recognize sight words quickly and accurately leads to greater oral reading fluency and allows the reader to focus on more challenging words encountered while reading. Improving fluency has a positive impact on reading comprehension as well as boosting self- confidence and increasing motivation to read independently.

WHICH WORDS SHOULD MY CHILD BE PRACTICING?

At the kindergarten level, it is the goal for students to be secure in recognizing all 60 words from the 1G List of Power Words, all 50 words from the 2G List of Power Words and all words from the white section of the 2G Category Word List by the end of the kindergarten school year.   The Power Word lists can be accessed by clicking the links below.  

1G Power Words

2G Power Words

2G Category Words

1B Tricky Words

2B Tricky Words

IRLA READING LOGS

WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW DO I FILL THEM OUT?

IRLA Reading Logs are used to keep track of the amount of time your child spends reading each day.  Our goal is that every child log a 30 minutes of reading at school and 30 minutes of reading at home each day.  The reading can be broken into smaller blocks of time (15 minutes is ideal).  Here is what reading may look like at home: 

1. Your child can read the pictures.

2. Your child can read the words.

3. Your child can make up a story to go along with the pictures.

4. You read a story to your child.

Each time your child completes 15 minutes of reading, it equals  1 step on the IRLA reading log.   (It is important to remember that steps are not logged by the number of books read but rather by the number of minutes spent reading).

1 step = 15 minutes of reading

On the reading log, for every one step completed at home, one house is circled, dated, and initialed by the parent.  The goal is to circle two houses each night (30 minutes of at home reading). Reading logs should be sent back and forth to school. We will also log reading steps at school.  Each time your child completes 100 reading steps, they earn a reading medal!! The names of medal winners are read over the morning announcements.  It is very exciting to hear the names of friends and relatives as they are announced for their success in reading!

IRLA Reading Log Example 

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What are Sight Words?

Sight Words—we call them “Power Words”—are high-frequency, low-meaning words, most of which cannot be sounded out and thus must be memorized by sight (e. g., the, of, these, are, here, and is). Our 1 Green (1G) collections use only the first 60 Sight Words that make up more than one-third of the words used in English text. Our 2 Green (2G) collections use only the first 120 Sight Words that make up more than 50 percent of the words used in English text. Once mastered, these words provide “islands of certainty” from which the emergent reader can navigate the unknown with confidence.

What is 1 Green?

At this level your child will know 25-75 Sight Words. Your child will be able to recognize these words anywhere and read them automatically, at flash speed, without sounding out or working at them.

• Children typically need to see and say a new word 40 times before they know it, so this level will take some patience and repeated practice.

• If your child gets stuck on a word, ask him, “What word would make sense there?” If he is still stuck, just tell him the word and keep going.

Learn more about 1GBrowse 1G Books

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Try reading this sample 1G book.

What is 2 Green?

At this level your child will know 75-125 Sight Words and will use them as a reliable and familiar support framework when reading. They will be able to read these words in books they have never seen before and out of context, such as on lists and flash cards, at flash speed.

• When your child comes to a “tricky word,” encourage her to look at the picture and say the first letter sound.

• If your child gets stuck on a word that she got right when it appeared on an earlier page in the book, ask her to go back and reread that earlier page and then try it again. Word repetition is common in 2 Green books for this purpose.

Learn more about 2Gshop 2G Books

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Try reading this sample 2G book.

Sight Word Activities

Since learning Sight Words is really about memorization, it will take time, patience, and repeated practice. If your child is having trouble learning the Sight Words just from reading and re-reading the books, try some of these fun activities:

• Flash Cards. Use our laminated Power Word cards on a ring, or make your own flash cards and keep them in a ziplock bag.

• Speed Games. Adrenaline actually helps to encode words into memory, so play hard and play fast. If your child isn’t up on his feet, trying to say the words as fast as he can—adrenaline isn’t kicking in yet. Make it a race to see how fast he can say all the words, using the flash cards or the 1 Green Skills Card.

• Concentration. Make 2 cards for each word and lay all the words out facedown in a grid. Take turns turning over 2 cards. If the words match, and your child can read the word, he gets the match.

• Go Fish. Make 2 cards for each word and play the traditional card game Go Fish, taking turns asking for and then drawing cards until a player gets a Power Word match. We recommend playing with just 10 words at a time.

• Sandwiching. Because Power Words are low-meaning, they aren’t that interesting to learn, so it can help to “sandwich” them with words that your child loves and cares about. Make up some flash cards for high-meaning, special words (e.g., the dog’s name, sibling’s name, best friend, cartoon character, etc.), and “sandwich” in the Power Words to form short sentences.

• Kinesthetic Encoding. It’s time to get active. Write the words on a large piece of paper, some poster board, an easel, or a blackboard. Ask your child to stand up and pretend to trace the letters in the air using his arm in big, sweeping motions as he slowly says the word (not the letters). Turn on some good tunes and have fun with the big motions.

• Auditory/Visual/Tactile Encoding. Get out the crayons and markers and practice writing the words. As your child writes the word, have him also say the word slowly (stretched out). You want him to say the whole word, not the letters, to help encode the entire word into long-term memory.

Municipal preschool educational institution "Kindergarten No. 2" of the city of Yaroslavl

Page updated on 12/02/2019

12/02/2019 Waste paper collection

Dear parents!

We would like to thank you and your children for participating in the environmental education campaign "Bright Ecology" (waste paper collection). This action has already become traditional in our institution. We collected 1310 kg of waste paper!

Thank you for the fact that most families take an active part in the campaign, thereby forming the right environmental awareness of their children!

"You are human! It depends on you,

How your planet will live!"

06/25/2018 Gratitude

Dear parents!

Thank you for your heartfelt participation in the life of the kindergarten despite being busy and short of time. Thank you for your patience and diligence!

Read more: Thank You Groups Photo Gallery

11/08/2017 Ecological and educational action "Bright ecology" (waste paper collection)

Dear parents!

Thank you and your children for participating in the environmental education campaign "Bright Ecology" (waste paper collection). This campaign has already become traditional in our institution. We collected 1850 kg of waste paper, breaking our personal record of last year.

Thank you for the fact that most families take an active part in the action, thereby forming the right environmental awareness of their children!

"You are a human! It depends on you,

How your planet will live!"

08/17/2017 Thanks for the registration of groups

Dear parents!

The administration of the kindergarten and teachers sincerely thank you for the help you provide in organizing groups. Thank you for your patience and diligence.

08/17/2017 Thanks to parents

We express our gratitude to all parents,
, who support the initiative
and do not forget about shoe covers, changeable shoes, entering our preschool institution.
We really want our house to become even cleaner and more comfortable.
Sincerely, children, educators and administration of preschool.

08/17/2017 Competition "The best feeder"

Dear parents!

As part of the city action "Take care of the birds" in our kindergarten, a family competition "The Best Feeder" was held. 125 families responded to our call: fathers and mothers together with their children made wonderful and unique feeders. (exhibition of works)

November 29, 2016 vote passed. Parents and children visited the exhibition and chose the feeders they liked the most. Adults and children received an amazing charge of joy and pride for the work done.

According to the results of voting, feeders were recognized:

08/17/2017 Waste paper collection

The administration of the kindergarten thanks you and your children for your help in collecting waste paper.

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08/17/2017 Feedback from parents

Dear parents!

We would like to thank you for your heartfelt feedback on the activities carried out in our kindergarten during our first academic year.

• “Dear employees of our kindergarten! What good fellows you are!! Everything was very bright, beautiful, elegant!!! Such a holiday was arranged for our children !!! Thank you, parents of the group "Pearl".

• “Thank you for the interesting activities within the framework of the Open Doors Week, it is clear what children know and can do, it's nice that the classes are in an exciting and playful way. Parent of the "Rybki" group.

• “… having visited the holiday dedicated to the family day, we saw how our children opened up to us in a new way: they read poetry, sang songs, danced. How much joy and inspiration in their big eyes. Many thanks for the work done and the organization of such a wonderful holiday.” 05/16/2017 group "Rybki"

• “… many thanks to the teaching staff of the kindergarten. The holiday dedicated to the family day left the best impressions. This is a great event that parents spend with their children, rejoice, admire and remember their childhood.” 18.5.2017 parents of the Zvyozdochka group.

We are very pleased that parents see and appreciate our work. In turn, we are grateful to them for their activity in the life of the kindergarten, for their responsiveness, positive attitude and high appreciation of the professionalism of the teaching staff.

We bring to your attention a video film about the professions of a teacher and educator, developed by the Ministry of Education and Science within the framework of the subprogram "Increasing the Prestige of the Teaching Profession" of the Comprehensive Program for Improving the Professional Level of Teachers of General Educational Organizations. View the link

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08/17/2017 Preparation of sites for the summer period

Dear parents!

On behalf of the kindergarten team and children, we sincerely thank you for finding the strength in yourself, remaining indifferent, being responsive and taking an active part in preparing the sites for the summer period, despite being very busy, lack of time. Now there are wonderful paintings on our verandas, flower beds and mini-gardens have appeared on the plots, which children are watching with great interest. A variety of summer toys delight children and make walks much more interesting.
We express gratitude to the most active parents:

09/27/2016 Day of the preschool worker.

Heartfelt thanks to all parents for congratulations on the Day of the Preschool Worker! It's nice to know that kindergarten is starting to develop its own traditions, and relationships are getting warmer!

GTO - the way to success!

Physical education is an important component of the overall development of a child in kindergarten. Every parent wants to see their child healthy, active and cheerful. For a child to always be like this, the foundations must be laid from early childhood. Therefore, at preschool age, much attention is paid to the development of children's muscles, their dexterity, strength and endurance. To ensure the health of the child, compulsory physical education is introduced in kindergarten.

Based on the Sanitary Norms and Rules, the physical education of children in preschool educational institutions is aimed at improving health and physical development, expanding the functionality of the child's body, and developing motor skills and motor qualities. It is necessary to use forms of motor activity: morning exercises, indoor and outdoor physical education, physical training minutes, outdoor games, sports exercises, rhythmic gymnastics and others.

Targets of preschool education for physical development according to the Federal State Educational Standard:

- at an early age: "the child has developed large motor skills, he seeks to master various types of movement (running, climbing, stepping over, etc.";

- at the stage of completion of preschool education: "the child has developed large and fine motor skills; he is mobile, enduring, masters the basic movements, can control his movements and manage them. "

• Complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP)

Regulations on the All-Russian Physical Culture and Sports Complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP) determines that the All-Russian Physical Culture and Sports Complex provides for the preparation for and direct implementation by various age groups (from 6 to 70 years and older) of the population of the Russian Federation of the established standards of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex according to 3 levels of difficulty.

At preschool age (for children 6-8 years old - the first stage of the introduction of the TRP) the foundation is laid for the physical development, health and character of a person in the future. In connection with the continuity between kindergarten and school, with the introduction of the delivery of TRP standards into the school curriculum, it is preschool education that orients children towards passing the TRP complex at preschool age.

For the implementation of the RLD complex in the kindergarten, the following conditions are provided for:

• regulatory and resource support;

• program-methodical, technological and organizational support of the RLD implementation system;

• information support and information and explanatory work;

• monitoring procedures to ensure the implementation of the TRP;

• organization and holding of sports events.

When implementing the TRP complex, we are guided by the following legal documents:

• Federal Law of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2012 N 273-FZ "On Education in the Russian Federation";
• SanPiN 2. 4.1.3049-13 - "Sanitary and epidemiological requirements for the device, content and organization of the mode of operation of the preschool educational institution";
• Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of October 17, 2013 N 1155 "On approval of the federal state educational standard for preschool education";
• Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 24, 2014 N 172 on the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP)
• Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation "On approval of the Regulations on the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP) of June 11, 2014 540
• Order of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation "On approval of state requirements for the level of physical fitness of the population when meeting the standards of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP)
• Order of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation of August 29, 2014 "On approval of the procedure for organizing and conducting testing of the population within the framework of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP)
• Order of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation dated July 14, 2015 "On approval of the procedure for organizing and conducting testing within the framework of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP)
• METHODOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS for testing the population within the framework of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP)
• METHODOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS for organizing tests (tests) included in the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (TRP)
• Order of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation "On changing state requirements for the level of physical fitness of the population when meeting the standards of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for work and defense" (GTO)"

The first stage of the TRP (skiing) 2019

COMPULSORY TESTS (TESTS)

OPTIONAL TESTS

CONDITION FOR OBTAINING THE TRP BADGE

Internet resources:

1. All-Russian Sports Complex "Ready for Labor and Defense".

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