Phonics Book 5 ( Short vowel U)

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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Copyright (c) 2004 2005 by Miz Katz N Ratz, patent pending

Book Five

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.

A CB ABC

BC

A

Book

Short Vowel “U” Index Page

How does a bug give another bug a hug?

My dog dug a hole in the garden

My cat likes to sleep on the little red rug

I left some milk in my big, blue mug

There’s a cloud up there

I poured some milk into a cup

I want to eat this nut

Monkey number one in the monkey hut

I want to play trains but my brother says no

Why do you say I’m greedy?

The sun is hot

Are we having fun?

I like to run, I really do

The baker baked a cinnamon bun

bug dug hug mug rug tug

up cup pup

but cut hut nut

bun fun gun run sun

Index Page continued

gum hum yum tum

mud bud

Mix it up

Ice cream is so yummy yum

I like music, I like to hum

I like chewing bubble gum

I didn’t do it

I picked a flower bud

What’s the right way to get rid of a bug?

Chicken pox

There’s a lady bug on the flower bud

bug hug bug

b b

b

My dog a hole in the garden;

he wanted to bury a bone

But the hole that he

so he buried the bone,

the car and the phone

in the very big hole

dug

dug rug

dug

b

b b b

My cat likes to sleep on the little

all her life But the dog and

the turtle and the parrot, Miss Myrtle,

They each grabbed a corner and

I left some milk in my big,

I looked inside and said, “Ugh!”

Something was growing inside

and totally yuck

b

b b

There’s a cloud there,

white and fluffy,

I wish I could sleep

there on the cloud

if I only knew how

up up

up

up

up

b b b

b

I poured some milk into a ,

I want to eat this ,

I can’t seem to chew it

as a piece of wood

nut but

nut but cut

nut but nut

b

b

3 2

1

Monkey number one in the monkey

was mean to all the monkeys in the

no one can have fun.”

monkey number three and monkey number two didn’t want a king to tell

them what to do So they walked right

I want to play trains, my brother

says no I want to play outside,

my brother won’t go I want to kick

will sit and pick my nooooo I won’t,

has an itch, and I don’t know what to do

but

but but

but

b b b

Why do you say I’m greedy?

I’ll share with you if you’re needy,

a piece for me, and a piece for you

one piece for you and two for me

No, that won’t do

I’ll have it all and want some more!

b

b b

b b

b

cut cut

cut

b

T.M.

Are we having yet –

We thought it would be

fun fun

fun

sun

b

I like to – I really do.

faster than you If you want

run run run run

run

run

b

A baker baked a cinnamon

as big as a house – it weighed a ton

The sugar on top of the cinnamon

The baker said, “oops,” and he started

all down the street, which is why you never

bun

bun run

Ice cream is so yummy

So I want lots of yummy

yum tum

yum tum

hum hum hum

than mess up the words and get it wrong

hum hum

hum

b

I like chewing bubble ,

my mouth, big, bad, bubbles keep coming out

gum gum

gum

b b

I didn’t do it – it wasn’t me

I didn’t get

on my two little feet

It was the

that walked in the door,

all over the floor

b

b

and

b b

mud mud

I picked a flower

and gave it to my sister

She tried to eat the

and cried until I kissed her

bud bud

b

b

M ii x ii tt

uu pp

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 the child practices reading

a variety of short vowel words.

What’s the right way to

get rid of a bug?

What’s the right way to

Do scream and holler or just say, “No”?

get rid of a bug

And what the waving

know, that’s why ask, because

at

Chicken Pox

toys

Or maybe chicken under my ,

I is

Bug and bud

can’t see where

a bug on bud

bug is red bud is red

bug is in bed but I

b

A progressive phonics book

Copyright (c) 2004 2005 by Miz Katz N Ratz, patent pending