The "B" word

Today during Reading, we were reviewing groups of long words and endings before we dove into our reading books. I picked on a student to read two words as fast as she could. Now this student some times gets her vowel sounds mixed up, and did on one of the words today. One of the words she was suppose to say was "batch", well she substituted the "a" for an "i", and said THAT word. I admit that I was not paying complete attention to the words so when she said the "b" word I was shocked! She knew that it did not sound right so she looked at the word again, and tried to sound it out. It was an awkward moment because I knew she knew she said the wrong vowel, and she was working on getting it right, but as she looked at the word she was saying the "b" word over and over (which is common, and a form of verbal processing), but not so great when it is an awkward word. So anyway after saying the "b" word five time she got the word correct! Whew.....what a reading class :)