Quick Start Guide 1

Intermediate
Book 13 Read the book WITH your child. You

w e ls
read the regular text, and he/she reads

V o Two
the big, red words, sort of like reading
the different parts in a play.

Vowels c-a-t
cat
Walking Help your child sound out
the words as needed.

blue Read the book several times. This

helps develop the eye muscles and
tail left-to-right reading patterns that are
necessary for reading.

ABC
Dont rush it. Body builders ABC
dont train in a day neither
does a child.

If your child is having difficulty, he/she

t might need more practice with simple
Ca short vowel words. Read or re-read the
t
ra Progressive Phonics Beginner Books a
Miz Katz N. Ratz few times, and then try this book again.

A Progressive Phonics book T.M.

And most important of

Copyright (c) 20042008 by Miz Katz N. Ratz, patent pending
all, HAVE FUN!
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Words that a child should
be able to read by now are
printed with BLUE ink if
your child cant read them
easily, go back and review
the earlier books.
Is my clock sick ?
Words taught in this book:
The new words
being learned are
big, red words. brain, mail, nail, pain, snail, strain,
tail, wait
- - - - - -
bean, clean, cream, eat, meal, neat,
pea, read, scream, steal, tea
- - - - - -

It only says tick .

boat, coat, float, goat, moan, soap,
toad, throat
- - - - - -
Joe, toe
Words or grammatical
- - - - - -
constructions that a child has not
learned yet are written in black ink. die, lie, pie, tie
These words are supposed to be - - - - - -
read by the parent/teacher. ** blue, clue, Sue, true
- - - - - -
** Your child can try to read them, but dont
worry too much about them. They are taught repeated words: bee, feed, feet,
later, either in later Progressive Phonics keep,need, sleep, three, moon, zoo,
books, or in spelling or grammar at school. book crook, hook, shook, took
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read TO your child.

When you see two vowels walking

together, the rule is this:
z z z
When two vowels go walking, the z zz
FIRST one does the talking. And
the first vowel talks by calling out
its name.

I do not like to wait ,

A
and I try not to be late , b
but my dog , Kate , b
sleeps so late b
b
that I always have to

Teacher/parent note: the exceptions to

wait wait wait .
, ,

this rule are taught in a later book.

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do not
touch

My dog wants to bite b I do not like to strain

histail although I really my brain , so I try not
dont know why. My dog b to think too much . It gives b
can never bite his tail , mybrain too much
but he really likes to try . b pain so I wrote on my
,

forehead , Do not touch. b

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Stop the game I broke b I got a letter in the b

a nail . Boo , hoo , hoo , mail . It was delivered
I broke a nail . by a snail . The snail
I feel no pain it doesnt
, held on to a fishs tail
hurt but my nail is
, to bring to me my mail ,

broken , and look at that dirt. b mail mail .

,
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When you see the letters E and A
walking together, the first one the
E calls out his name.

E hat
cat

I need to read my book ;

I need to read it now.
I wish that I could read
Teacher/parent note: the other pronunciations my book will someone b
of ea (head, dead, break, great. etc.) are
taught in a later book. show me how? b
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A hungry monkey had to b I keep my toys in a big , b

steal a banana peel b blue box ; I keep them b
for his morningmeal . clean and neat . But
He also had a cup of tea , b
late at night , when I go to
one green bean sleep my toys get out and b
,

and one green pea . eat eat eat .

, ,
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Why do I need to clean my

room ? I want to read a book . I scream ;
I think my room is clean enough you scream ;

I will let you take a look . See? b we all scream

The bed is made the floor is b

,
for ice cream .

clean but do not look in the

closet or you will scream .
,
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When you see the letters O and A
walking together, the first one the
O calls out his name.

A goat in a coat
sat in a boat but the
,

boat had a hole it did

not float . The boat
went down the coat got
,

wet and the goat had to

,

go and see the vet. b

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A bug is sick with a bad b

I got in the tub , just b
sore throat because she
me and the soap
went out without a coat .
and the duck and the boat
She cannot talk , so she has b
and the fish and the toad
moan .
,
to She sits at
just me and the sponge and b
moan
home , going
goat .
,
the mop and the
moan moan .
,
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When you see the letters O and E
walking together, the first one the
O calls out his name.

No , Joe I will not look

,

at the toe on your foot

or the toe on the book .
And no Joe I do not care
, ,

about the spoon on your nose b

or the toe in your hair.
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When you see the letters I and E
walking together, the first one the
E calls out his name.

I cannot tell a lie ;

I ate the pie .
The pie was so big that I
thought I would die
I wish it was a lie
that I ate the pie .
Parent/teacher note: More rules about ie
and ei are taught in a later book.
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When you see the letters U and
E walking together, the first one
the U calls out his name.

My brother cannot tie his tie ,

so I try to tie it for him .

I try and try and try and try , b
but histie will not tie
under his chin . b
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Sue

My skin is as blue as the Yes , it is true my name

blue blue sky. I am so cold
, is Sue . I am a boy , but the
that I could cry . My lips are b doctor had no clue . So they
blue and so is my nose is
, called me Sue and what bad
,

it true I am as blue as luck I have a lot of dolls but b

: ,

my blue blue clothes?

, I really want a truck . b
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Youve seen this before, but when you
see TWO letters Es walking together,
just one of them calls out his name.

I need to feed
my tummy. I need to
feed it now. I need
to feed three times
a day breakfast lunch b
, , ,

and now. b
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I keep a fuzzy bug in Is it good to be a bee ,

a jar but all he does is b

, or is it better to be me ?
sleep . Why do I want And if I was a bee ,

to keep keep keep

, , and if a bee was me ,

a bug with a hundred feet, we would laugh and say ,

feet feet ? Thats why!

, Hey! You are me !
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When you see two letter Os walking
together, its different. They dont
call out their name they make a
different sound

a good book

Every night at the zoo ,

a cool pool zoo zoo

, , I tell you what
they like to do . They dance b
and sing under themoon ,

and if we were there we b

,

would do it too .
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THE END

Captain Hook
jumped out of a book
he took my money,

and he shook his hook .

Captain Hook is
such a crook !