Phonsic book 1(print version)

• Each phonics book is a collection of sentences highlighting a particular phonics pattern. These are not actual stories like you might find in a purchased series or the Rhyme to Read app. However, you’ll find that the bright and engaging pictures will keep your child’s attention • Each book features both a phonics pattern and sight words that your child can learn by reading our free sight word readers. You’ll find the featured sight words listed on the back of each book.

Don’t rush it Body builders don’t train in a day – neither does a child.

And most important of all, HAVE FUN!

If your child is having difficulty, he/she might need more practice with the alphabet Get a fun book about the alphabet, and read that lots of times Then come back

to Progressive Phonics.

Quick Start Guide

Read the book WITH your child You read the “regular” text, and he/she reads the big, red words, sort of like reading the different parts in a play.

Help your child sound out the words as needed.

c - a - t cat

Read the book several times This helps develop the eye muscles and left-to-right reading patterns that are necessary for reading.

BC ABC

A C Boo k

Written and illustrated by

Copyright (c) 2004–2008 by Miz Katz N Ratz, patent pending

Short vowel “a” word list

at bat cat fat hat mat pat rat sat

bad dad had mad sad

cab dab gab

bag gag wag

am ham jam Pam Sam yam

can Dan man pan ran van

b

3 2

I want to buy a baseball

baseball, baseball every day

hat bat bat

b

covers my eyes I need a

that’s more my size

at hat hat

You tell me I can your

, but I don’t want to

your is very nice, but he

pat rat

pat rat

rat rat

7 6

When I was a baby, I

a yellow duck When I was two,

Everybody says he looks a lot like me

had

had

had

b b b

My mother said I to take

a nap My sister said I

to feed the cat My brother said I

to tie his shoe

Everybody tells me what to do;

I think I’ll scream until I’m blue

had

had

b b

My sister says my manners are

She makes me feel so But then she said I

– because if I have no

b b

is gone, and she found his bones out on the lawn

sad sad sad

b b

When was young he

more money;

a lot of hair, and his nose was funny I got the hair, Jim’s

nose is funny – but we want to

know, who got the money?

dad

had

b b b

of blue – I am making a picture of me and you

that’s a turtle Another little

, and your nose is purple

dab dab

dab dab

b

b

15 14

gab gab gab

TAXI

I like it when the driver likes

b b

except banana pies

gag gag gag

g

I’ve got a of candy.

bag bag

wag bag

19 18

eating from this bowl – worms and

with you – please tell me if you want some too

am am

b b

b b

My name is , and

hungry to eat some of this

one little bit, big or small

Pam Sam am

ham Sam

ham

b b

Dan can

Dan can

b

A down the

fast as he could The dog

faster – boy, he was good

man ran

ran man

man ran

ran

b

23 22

where the treasure is buried

I asked my mom to help me with

map map

map

nap

b b

I always wear my baseball

I never take it off, not even for

fell off my head – I didn’t have

hair, I had flowers instead

cap

b b

Sometimes an “s” at the end

of a word sounds like “zzz”

like in “is” , “his” and “was”

b

My brother a lot of toys,

but he always plays with mine

but he always chews on mine

when, oh, when will he be my age?

has has

has

b b

b

27 26

has has has has

My cat is big a dog.

and I’m smaller than them all

as as

as as

as as

b

an “A” all by itself, it usually means ONE of something

Like, a dog, a mouse, a car, a house, and so on

This kind of “a” doesn’t sound like other “a” sounds – it usually sounds like this: “uh” dog, “uh” mouse,

“uh” car, “uh” house You try

I like to play silly game – the

game is so silly it doesn’t have

pretend you’re bird, you eat

lot of worms that you dig from

the dirt Just kidding!

a

a a

b b

b

31 30

I wish I had puppy I wish I

monkey, and I wish I had

When a word starts with a letter

“a”, we don’t say, “a apple”, we

say, “an apple.”

airplane

And when a word starts with a

letter “e,” we don’t say, “a elephant,”

we say, “an elephant.”

time I get pet, I will get mouse

And same with words that start with

the letters “i”, “o” and “u” –

b

an an an an an

!!

35 34

idea – stuck inside my head

So I put the idea on piece of bread, and I swallowed it down

an an

a

b b

dea i

M ii x ii tt

uu pp

Up until now, each “story” focused

on just a few letters and words at

a time

In the “Mix It Up” section, we “step

it up” by highlighting a sampling of

ALL words that the child should

know by now

If the child has trouble with the

“Mix It Up” section, re-read the

earlier portion of this book to help

the child develop better recognition

of these particular words

he said with sob

at

b

b

I run fast your little feet I have two little holes

and closed my eyes – then

b

yap yap yap

Put the in the

cat am mad

bat nap van

can

43 42

The End

Next:

Progressive Phonics Book 2: Short Vowel “e”

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by Progressive Phonics Co

“No, you have hairy chin.”

The wolf said, “Oooh, what

I going to do? I know I

, but I need to use the loo.”

Cat can

cat a

am am bad

Loo is British slang for toilet.