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Don’t rush it. Body builders don’t train in a day, neither does a child. Don’t worry about upper-case letters or capitalizing proper nouns. Uppercase letters are taught in a later book. Use the handwriting worksheets – when children write what they learn, they learn it better. 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 many times. This helps develop the eye muscles and left-to-right reading patterns that are necessary for reading. C AB ABCWritten and illustrated by Copyright (c) 2007 by Miz Katz N. Ratz, patent pending A Progressive Phonics book T.M. Alphabetti Book 1-D Miz Katz RatzN. alphabetti box d o g b a + i (letters practiced in this book) T.M. 2 the 43 This is the letter “i” – the letter “i” says “-i-” as in insect, igloo and iguana. i The letter “i” is made of a short stick and a tiny, little bouncing ball... ii 5 6 Let’s use our hands to make the letter “i” – - -i Use your thumb as the stick Use your fist and bounce up and down for the little ball And what does the letter “i” say? (Have the child make the letter “-i-” sound several times.) Let’s sound out these words, and see what they say – b i g d i g d i d aa dd gg oo bb ii 87 One day , th park dod bob big dog and f ind a bone at e . d Look at the words we can make with the letters we know... b i g b a d b o b d o d d o g d i g d i d 109 Now, there ’s noth ing l ike a , ju i cy bone to turn even the n ices t in to a . big dog bad dog What do? growled a , growl – ! did dod dod big bad bad dod 1211 dod big big bad sa id , “My bone !” And he grabbed the bone wi th h i s teeth . b b , What do? Not much (how cou ld he? ) but did bob bob did dod b shake h i s ta i l at . bob did bob did big not say anyth ing (how cou ld he? ) but b b grab the bone wi th h i s ta i l . 1413 dod big dod did bob bob rea l ly wanted that , ju i cy bone , but not want to f ight . was h i s f r i end . b Perhaps because was the on ly one wi th bra ins , had a idea . “Let ’s have a contes t ! ” sa id dod dod big dod b . 1615 dod bob big dog dig big big to ld h i s idea . “ The who can the , b iggest ho le wi l l get the bone !”d Boy, look at . can real ly a hole . Go, , go! bob dig bob dig big bob d dod dig dod dig dod dig big big s tar ts to – look at . Wi l l the , b iggest ho le? b 1817 dod bob bob says , “He l lo . ” wags h i s ta i l . d Whoops ! and meet in the midd le . dod bob g 2019 They both – and share the , ju i cy bone . did dod bob big g Who the , b iggest ho le? i t? Or i t? did dig big big did dod dig did bob dig THE END21 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11