Before you teach · about 90 seconds

Grade 1 · Day 23

L15 · Short vowels a, e, i, o, u

Today

Second day on the same lesson — p.22, a column of real words on one pattern. Do not re-teach it. Re-run the column and go at whatever the children were not accurate on yesterday.

The one thing

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/ɪ/ · short i

Mouth barely open. Lips spread. Tongue high and forward, but relaxed — /i/, as in 'sit'.

They check it: Say 'bed' then 'bid': the jaw comes up again, and it is the smallest opening of the three.

Not in Arabic, Somali, Urdu. For those children this is a new physical skill, not a reminder. Do not let the column start until the mouth can make it.

Watch for

The long ee of 'seat'. Arabic and Somali have the long one, not this short relaxed one, so 'sit' comes out as 'seat'.
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