Before you teach · about 90 seconds

Grade 1 · Day 37

L23 · Short o words

Today

p.36–37 — a column of real words on one pattern. 54 words, 26.9 minutes.

The one thing

tongue herevoice ON
/ɒ/ · short o

Open wide like short a, but now pull your tongue BACK and let your lips go round — /o/, as in 'hot'.

They check it: Mirror: wide open, but the lips are round, not smiling. That is what separates it from short a.

Not in Somali. 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

/æ/ — the jaw is the same, the tongue and lips are not.
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