Before you teach · about 90 seconds
Grade K · Day 63
L28a · Consonants b and d
Today
p.42 — letters and their sounds in isolation. 25 words and 12 sentences, 25.4 minutes.
The one thing
No new sound today. This is drill, and drill is the point — the column is where a sound stops needing thought. Run it down, across, and then in random order, and if you finish early run it again rather than ending the block. Accuracy first, speed after; a child who is fast and wrong is practising being wrong.