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 the multisensory routine: trace the letter in a sand or salt tray while saying the name and sound three times. Then trace it in the air, then write it on paper.

Work on two letters at a time (m and s first, then a and t).

Trace m. Name and sound?
Answer: M, /m/.
Trace s. Name and sound?
Answer: S, /s/.
Which picture starts with /m/: moon or sun?
Answer: moon.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Make as many words as you can with letter cards m, s, a, t.
Answer: sat, mat, at, Sam, tam, mast.
Find M, S, A, or T in a book, on a sign, or on a cereal box.
Answer: Any correct letter found in print.