Before you teach · about 90 seconds

Grade K · Day 35

L15 · Short vowels a, e, i, o, u

Today

Second day on the same lesson — p.22, a column of real words on one pattern. Do not re-teach it. Re-run the column and go at whatever the children were not accurate on yesterday.

The one thing

tongue herevoice ON
/ʌ/ · short u

Mouth relaxed and half open. Do nothing with your lips at all — no smile, no rounding. Tongue flat in the middle — /u/, as in 'cup'.

They check it: This is the LAZIEST sound in English. If your face is doing anything, you are trying too hard.

Not in Arabic, Somali, 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

/ɒ/ and /ɑ/. Because it is unmarked, children reach for a stronger vowel.
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