p.57–59 — a column of real words on one pattern; connected reading. 116 words and 21 sentences, 30.4 minutes.
The BACK of your tongue goes up to the back of the roof and stays. The sound comes out of your nose — ng. Your tongue tip never touches anything.
They check it: Say 'sing' and freeze on the last sound. Feel where your tongue is: at the back, not the front.
Not in Arabic, 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.