Progressive Beginner PHONICS Book 1

1 Short Vowel A hadcancatamWritten and illustrated by Miz Katz N. Vowel A ProgressivePHONICSB eginner 1 Book 1 Book hat mat rat satamram Sam haddadsadc a t s m n d h r Letters & words used in this bookcanmanrannan Copyright 2004 2015 by Miz Katz N. Ratz All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Produced in the United States of America. Fifth Edition, 2015. Progressive PHONICS Co Los Angeles, CA Acknowledgements:For my Mom, whomade it all TABLE OF CONTENTSQ uick Start Guide 5 .. b at word family 6 .. at, cat, hat, mat, rat, sat an word family 27 .. can, man, nan, ran ad word family 39.

2 Dad, had, sad am word family 49 .. am, ram, Sam3 Don t rush it. Body-builders don t train in a day neither does a most important ofall, HAVE FUN!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 your child sound out the words as the book several times. This helps develop the eye muscles and left-to-right reading Start Guide4 Today we are going topractice the ah ah sound is in lots of words, like --(Read this page TO your child.)5animal alphabetangry ant act like an at family6 Look, look, bwould you look bat that?Look At My Cat7 That is not ba hat, that bis my .cat8My silly is catscared of mice, so bshe hides on my head ball day and night. b9I tell my , cat Don t be scared. bMice can t catch byou way up there.

3 B10 Then one day bmy said, cat Mice! b11I got so scared bthat I screamed btwice. b12 The in the windowcatis looking me, said ata bird who on the satbranch of a tree. bThe Cat In The Window1314 No, no, no! a second bbird said. The cat is looking me atinstead. b15 The looks cat atme because I am better, bsaid bird number three as bshe flapped her feathers. bBut the cat was a toy with glass eyes and bstuffing, so the catin the window was blooking nothing. at16We have three cats, bbut only one .matThree Cats And A Mat17So one cat sat on the the second bcat sat on the cat sat that on the .mat19 Then the third cat sat cat on the who on the satcat mat on the .20 And then they bwere happy. b How about that? bb21A went toratthe store to buy ba . hatbThe Rat s Hat22 The first hatwas too big.

4 B23 The second hatwas too small. b 24 The third hatwas just right, b25so the ratate it bite bby bite. b26canmannanran an familyNote 1: The word an will be in an Intermediate Phonicsbook because it is a grammatical 2: Nan is a child s name for a I jump higher than a tree? bCan Can I? I? Little, tiny me? bCan I?28 Tee, hee, hee is a silly way of , I jump higher canthan a tree. A tree can t bjump, tee, hee, hee! b29 Can Of CornSee this of corn canin my hand? I caneat it, yes, I . can30 But a of corncandoesn t taste very good, band a of corn is canas hard as wood. b31A Man RanA pair of shoes bran down the street. b32A too, man ranbut he had bare feet. b Hey! said the , man Come back to me. b33stinky! We , said thecanshoes, when you wash byour feet. b34My nan canmake good cookies. bMy Nan Nan is a child s name for nan canmake a cake, oh, yes!

5 B36My said nanI could make bsomething. b37So, look! I bbmade a mess! 38dadhadsad ad familyNote: The word bad will be in Beginner Book 2 because the letter b is a difficult letter, and Beginner Book 2 addresses this I was a baby, bI a yellow duck. hadWhen I was two, I bhad a red truck. bHad40 When I was three, I b a chimpanzee. hadLook him, he looks at like me! b41I to brush my hair, hadand I to brush my hadteeth. Then I to put hadsocks and shoes on my feet. bHad To42 Then I to put a had on top of my this what you wear bwhen you go to bed? b43 Dad ShoesMy said I dadcould try his shoes. bHis shoes dadfit me fine. b44 But I would like to bsee my dadtry to walk in mine. b45So SadI down satto sing a song. b46It was a ,sad song. sad47 And the sadsong was too long. b48amramSam am family49I as tall amas a !

6 ManI Am when I stand bon a chair, I .am51I . am Sam a , I am catand I stuck aminside a . hatI Am Sam52 The is nice hatwhen it is snowing, bbut I can t see where bI and a ratram ran a race. bA ram is a boy Race54 The ram ran faster, b55so the ratput on skates. b56 Cheater! said the b as the ram ratrolled by. b57 I the winner! ambsaid the . rat Bye-bye! b58 But the wasn tratlooking, and he b into a No, said the bram, the winner is me! b60 The EndNext: Progressive PhonicsBook 2: Short Vowel e