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.
Check yourself: Say 'sing' and freeze on the last sound. Feel where your tongue is: at the back, not the front.
Watch for: Children say 'sin' or 'sing-g'. Neither has the tongue parked at the back.
◆ marks a word that does NOT follow today's pattern — Blumenfeld boxes these on the page. Teach it by heart; do not let the class sound it out and lose faith in the rule.
Say the word, have them repeat it, count the sounds on fingers, THEN write. The count is what stops a child writing the first letter and guessing the rest.