Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Use real objects on a plate. Show them all and count. Then physically move the ones that "go away" off the plate. Count only what is still on the plate.

Keep the starting number at 3 or less first, then go to 5.

2 on the plate. Take 1 off.
Answer: 1 left.
3 on the plate. Take 1 off.
Answer: 2 left.
3 on the plate. Take 2 off.
Answer: 1 left.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Find all the ways to take away from 5.
Answer: 5 − 0 = 5, 5 − 1 = 4, 5 − 2 = 3, 5 − 3 = 2, 5 − 4 = 1, 5 − 5 = 0.
Tell your own take-away story for 4 − 2.
Answer: Example: 4 cookies, I ate 2, 2 are left.