Before you teach · about 90 seconds

Grade 2 · Day 66

L101, L102, L103 · Spelling forms ough and augh · f as gh · Long o as o-e

Today

p.109–110 — a column of real words on one pattern. 123 words and 14 sentences, 30.4 minutes.

The one thing

12tongue slides 1 → 2voice ON
/oʊ/ · long o

Push your lips into a round O. Start with your mouth open, then close your lips into a smaller, tighter circle as you finish — /oʊ/, the name of the letter o.

They check it: Mirror: your lips must get SMALLER and rounder while you say it. If your lips hold still, you are saying a plain o.

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.

Watch for

A plain held /o/. All three home languages have one, which is why this sound gets waved through and then turns up wrong in every long-o word for the rest of the year.
As-Suffah Academy · Phonics · briefThen open the run sheet