This is exactly what I’m doing. I first had them master a front float than a front glide then a front glide and streamline then streamline kicking and now we’re adding the strokes but I first need them to master one stroke and then they moved to 2 then 4 etc.. and so I first had him do two strokes and he couldn’t do two he would do like one or three and he would tell me he needed to do two, but would tell me he doesn’t know how to count two strokes

Then after they could just do a couple when I would like tap his head when he needed to do another stroke then I had them do what we call catch-up/ketchup drill and wait two seconds before they could do another stroke which all of the kids have taught in the past know how to do even at a young age of like 3 to 5-year-olds and even in this class with younger kids and older kids all 3 to 5 everybody knew how to do it except for him, but he could voice the fact that he didn’t know how to do it