p.79–81 — mixed recall across earlier lessons; connected reading; a column of real words on one pattern. 153 words and 15 sentences, 30.4 minutes.
Start with your mouth half open and your lips wide, like a small smile. Then slide your tongue UP and close your mouth a little as you finish. Two sounds glued together — /eɪ/, which is the name of the letter a.
They check it: Hand under your chin. Say it slowly: your jaw comes UP at the end. If your jaw never moves, you are saying one sound where there should be two.
Not in Somali, Arabic, 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.