Fourteen children, one hour, and about twenty minutes of it spent reading aloud one at a time.
Parents ask what happens in the hour, usually after paying for it, so here is the hour before you enrol rather than after.
The first five minutes are children arriving and settling, and they are not counted as teaching. The office starts the hour when the teacher starts.
Then about twenty minutes of reading aloud, one child at a time, while the rest follow in their own copy. This is the part parents watching from the door find slow, and it is the part that does the work. A child reading four lines while thirteen others follow is thirteen children reading silently and one being corrected.
About twenty minutes on the letters and the rules of recitation, taken from whatever came up in the reading rather than from a list. A rule taught because a child just tripped on it stays; a rule taught in the abstract on a Tuesday does not.
The last stretch is whatever the class is working through together, and it is the part that varies most between our three teachers.
Somewhere in all of that the class stops for the prayer. The pause is not counted against the hour, which is worth saying because a family is paying for an hour of teaching.
Every few weeks the teacher writes on each child's record. Ask at the office and we will print it. It is short and it is not flattering, and the parents who read it are the ones who know what their child is actually doing.