Read the book WITH your child. You Words that a child should
read the “regular” text, and he/she reads be able to read by now are The new words
the big, red words, sort of like reading printed with BLUE ink – if
the different parts in a play. being learned are
your child can’t read them “big, red words”.
easily, go back and review
c-a-t the earlier books.
Help your child sound out cat
the words as needed.
air plane
Syl-la-bles
A syllable is a group of letters
that have ONE vowel-sound. banana
ball
lizard
c at
e l e c tri c i ty
g l a ss
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Co u n ti n g
spaghetti (3)
syl l a b l e s
pizza (2)
pie (1)
If you put your hand under your chin ,
you can count how many syllables are popcorn (2)
in a word. This is because your chin lollipop (3)
drops every time you say a syllable. candy (2)
chocolate (3)
cat (1)
giraffe (2)
hippopotamus (5)
snake (1)
Say the following words after me , alligator (4)
and let’s count how many syllables elephant (3)
are in each word. rhinoceros (4)
amazing (3)
(Parent/teacher: make sure you
exaggerate each vowel-sound so that family (3)
the motion is large enough to feel.) dinosaur (3)
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Wo r d s th at e n d i n
th e l e tte r “ Y”
b
If there is another vowel right
next to the “Y , ” the letter “Y”
doesn’t say much of anything.
n
To y
This is a one-syllable word because
there is just ONE vowel-sound. O E
A
To n y
day (See Intermediate Book #7 for an explanation
of consonants and vowels.)
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a
happ
angry (See Intermediate Book #12 for an explanation
of short and long vowels.)
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Tommy
Tony
Timmy
Do u b l e z zz z
zz
zz
vowe l s
z zz zz zz
My hungry , greedy
dog wants to eat my cat . b I gave my dirty dog
My teeny , tiny cat a long , soapy bath .
wants to eat my rat . My b b
I got him clean , but look
smelly , stinky rat at me . I need a soapy
wants to eat a lot of cheese. b bath , or maybe two or
And they never , ever , ever , b three . b
ever , ever say , “Please.” b
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Ru l e
b r e a ke r s