Phonics Book 4 (Short vowel 0)

Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them. The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out, or, in phonics terms, blending the soundspelling patterns. Since it focuses on the spoken and written units within words, phonics is a sublexical approach and, as a result, is often contrasted with whole language, a wordlevelup philosophy for teaching reading. Since the turn of the 20th century, phonics has been widely used in primary education and in teaching literacy throughout the Englishspeaking world. More specifically, synthetic phonics is now the accepted method of teaching reading in the education systems in the UK and Australia.

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Written and illustrated by

A Progressive Phonics bookT.M.

Book Four

Don’t rush it Body builders

don’t train in a day, neither

does a child.

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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.

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

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Book

Short Vowel “o” contents

Today the sun was much too hot

I got a lot of toys for my birthday

I got very hungry

The little i and the little j both have got a dot

How far can you hop?

I can’t find the mop

I can’t pop balloons

To make a sandwich for a cop

My dog likes to dress up

We sat on a log

If a hog eats like a hog

My dog can sleep like a log

If I nod my head

A cod is a fish that lives in the ocean

I went into the kitchen

snf

dot got hot lot not pot

cop hop mop pop top

dog hog log

cod nod

on

bob job rob sob

A robber wanted to rob a bank

Sally is crying, sob, sob, sob

My plate is made of silver

I got in a lot of trouble

I would eat a bowl of bugs

I put socks on a fox

If I had a hot dog

If I had a box of chocolates

My dog has a dot

Bob has a job

A hog sat on top of my house

Today the sun

was much too – too to run,

too to play ball,and much too

to have fun at all

b

b

hot hot

hot

hot

I a of toys for my birthday.

I cake and ice cream too

And if you are very nice to me,

I’ll share a with you

got lot

got

lot

b

I was hungry,

so I a pot,

I some carrots,

and I a of peas.Then I the pot

very, very hot;

lot

Little “i” and little “j”

got dot

dot

How far can you – can you to the ?And can you as fast

as a , , ?

hop

hop hop hop mop

I can’t find the ,

so I can’t the floor

But if I don’t the floor,

I can’t go out and play

So I guess I’ll have to find the

right behind the door

mop mop

mop

mop

b

b

near the baby at all,

then why are balloons

all over the wall?

pop pop pop

b b

b

b b

To make a sandwich for a ,

you start with a slice of bread

On of the bread, you put

some cheese On of the cheese, you smash some peas On of the peas, you mash a potato – and

on of all this you add a tomato.Then you cut it in half for your

favorite , and you serve it up

cop

pop

b

b b

My likes music,

and my likes to dance

My likes to dress up

in shoes and fancy pants

My doesn’t bark, and

he won’t play ball –

I don’t think my

is a at all

dog

dog dog

dog

dog dog

b b

My and I

sat on a

The rolled over

and tried to squish

me and my ,

and, oh, how I wish

I had never sat down

on a with my

dog

log log

dog

b b b

My sleeps like a –

a bomb going off wouldn’t

wake my

So if I want to go out and play,

I must wait for my ,

sometimes all day

If I my head to say no,

and I my head to say yes – then what I mean when I

my head is anyone’s guess

nod

nod

nod b

A is a fish that lives in

the ocean A swims all day;

he is always in motion

On Mother’s Day, to show

his devotion, a gives his mother some fishy-wish lotion

cod

cod

cod

b b b

I went into the

eating peanut butter

a slice of whole wheat bread He had shoes his feet and a hat was his head I called the police at 9-1-1 –

they said the monkey was my mother’s other son

b b

b

b b

b

b b

on on

on

b

b

A robber wanted to a bank,but he never took a bath,

and his feet really stank

So he didn’t a bank,

and he didn’t a store –

they smelled him coming,

and they caught him at the door

rob

rob rob

b b

b

b

Sally is crying –

, ,

She is crying because her husband, ,

was late to work

and lost his

b

b b

sob sob sob

Bob job

My cup is made silver;

my dish is made gold

But I can’t eat a bite food – this food is really old

of of

of b

Most of the time, the letter “F” makes

a sound like “ffffinger” and “iffff.”

But sometimes “F” makes a sound like

“vuh” – like when you say the word “of.”

I got in a lot trouble,

the day I filled the house with bubbles

I wanted to make my brother laugh,

so I used ten bottles bubble bath

There were jillions bubbles on the

floor; zillions bubbles on the roof

How was I supposed to know

the house wasn’t bubble-proof?

of

of of of

b b

b b

Now let’s practice “ ” and “ ” –

I would eat a bowl bugs

you took the first bite

I would sleep in a pit snakes

you spent the first night

I would climb the tallest tree

you were right ahead me

We always do everything together –you do it first, that’s even better

of if

of if

if

b

b

so the ran off

in his stinky-pinky socks

fox box ox

M ii x ii tt

When a child is comfortable reading the

Big Red Words in this book, he/she is

ready for “Mix It Up” – the part of the book where a child practices reading a variety

of short vowel words.

If I had a hot dog

walk along the street?

would bite or bark me?

do want – want something eat!

b

at

can I

could them both together,

or would taste taste too funny?

My

nose,but nobody knows –

the hardly shows

dog has a dot

on top of his

dot

Bob has a job

dog

If

his it

,washing the

Does the think its

is running away?

young

wants to finish ,

he must catch the

and teach to stay

Bob

job dog b

A hog sat on top of

ladder to down,but the began to

“Are you or ?” I asked the

, tears rolled down cheeks

“ because pink and Why, oh, why was born ?”

a hog

mad hog