Before you teach · about 90 seconds
Grade 2 · Day 33
L35, L36, L37 · Sentences with verbs to be and to have · Contractions · Sentences with
Today
p.48–49 — connected reading; a column of real words on one pattern. 68 words and 28 sentences, 25.4 minutes.
The one thing
No new sound today. This is drill, and drill is the point — the column is where a sound stops needing thought. Run it down, across, and then in random order, and if you finish early run it again rather than ending the block. Accuracy first, speed after; a child who is fast and wrong is practising being wrong.