A federal program that offers comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to children who come from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
A federally funded program that provides services to pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers from low socioeconomic backgrounds to support optimal child development while helping parents/families move toward economic independence.
Behaviors, activities, practices, and environments that have modified to mirror the age, characteristics and developmental progress of a certain group of children.
A set of skills or age-specific activities that early childhood experts believe that the majority of children should be able to do within a certain age range.
The letters: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, and z.
A blend is when you take two letters and place them together (side-by-side) in a word, and you perceive both sounds. A few examples include: bl, gr, st, or nd.
Vowel combinations that can make more than one sound, such as the oo in book and moon OR sounds that can be signified by more than one vowel mixture, like the sound of /ah/ in tall, caught, or cost.
A part of phonological awareness. Two words that start differently, but have a similar sound at the end.
The capacity to hear the small sounds (or phonemes) in a word.