Quick Start Guide 1

Intermediate
Book 12 Read the book WITH your child. You

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

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

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

at cake Read the book several times. This

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

ABC
Don’t rush it. Body builders ABC
don’t 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) 2004–2008 by Miz Katz N. Ratz, patent pending
all, HAVE FUN!
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Words that a child should Words taught in this book:
be able to read by now are The new words
printed with BLUE ink – if being learned are
your child can’t read them “big, red words”. ate, brave, cake, came, cape,
easily, go back and review
the earlier books. cave, Dave, gave. grape, have,
made, make, name, plate, same,
save, snake, take.
Is my clock sick ? - - - - -
It only says tick .
five, ice, like, mice, mile, nice,
nine, ride, side, slide, smile,
time, twice, wide, wife.
Words or grammatical - - - - -
constructions that a child has not bone, hole, home, hope, pole,
learned yet are written in black ink.
These words are supposed to be stole, those.
read by the parent/teacher. **
- - - - -
cute, huge, use.
** Your child can try to read them, but don’t
worry too much about them. They are taught - - - - -
later, either in later Progressive Phonics
books, or in spelling or grammar at school. Pete, these.
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4 read TO your child. 5
There are five vowels, and each vowel Part of learning how to read is learning
can make different sounds – listen: the different sounds that vowels make.

Let’s start with this – each vowel has a

An alligator ate name, which is its “long sound,” and each
an awful apple. vowel also makes a “short sound.”

Every elephant eats Say the Say the short

eggs. name... sound...

A c-a-t
It is ice.
E p-e-t
Oh, no, not more
mops. I p-i-g
O d-o-g
Blue bug.
U b-u-g
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We know that in three-letter words, the We know that when you see two of the
vowel usually makes its “short sound” – same vowel sitting together, the vowel
calls out its name or makes a different
sound –
bat

jet feet

pot
moon

wig on a pig

book
cup
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We know that when a vowel is all alone We are now going to learn a new way
at the end of a very small word, it can to know when a vowel is supposed to
call out its name – call out its name.

You see, there’s something called a

silent “e” – this is an “e” that you
sometimes see at the end of a word –
hi

Tim time
me
Sam same

no
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When you add an “e” to the end of a
word, the naughty little “e” reaches
around and PINCHES the vowel,
making it call out it’s name:
11
And the naughty “e” is silent because
he doesn’t want to get into trouble.
“Silent” means to say nothing and to
make no noise.

c-a-p

cap cap
cap e
cap
cap
A

ca p
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I am a superhero – see b
my cap and my cape . I sat at the table
My cap and my cape are and ate a big cookie ,

as purple as a grape . but as I ate the last

My cap and my cape little bite , my dog b
,

are supposed to help me fly b

, ate it first – he was
but my cape falls off so impolite. b
every time I try to fly . b
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I made a picture of a cat , Sam is the same age

and I made the cat a hat. as me . Sam goes to the
I was mad at the cat , same school too .
so I made his hat too small . But my name is Pam ,

But then I was sorry b

, which starts with a “ P ” b
,

so I made the cat a ball so Sam shouldn’t wear

the same shirt as me .
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My cat had a party and

everyone came – a dog ,
Mother , may I make a
a frog and a pig with no b
,
cake ? A cake is what
I want to make . I will not
name . The dog came
with a cake . The frog
take long and I will not
,

came with a snake . The make a mess . So may

I make a cake ?
pig came with his family too .
Please say “ Yes .” b
The party was just like a zoo . b
,
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I gave my brother Dave

, , Save me, save me ,
a big piece of cake ; I also a bear is in the cave .
gave Dave a banana and Save me save me
, ,

a grape . Dave ate the if you are very brave .

banana. Dave ate the cake Save me save me ...
,

and grape and I was surprised

, oh... it is just my brother , b
when Dave ate the plate . Dave .
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20 are read TO your child. 21

In the word “have”, the naughty

! “e” doesn’t do anything, so the
word “have” sounds like “has” –

I have a brother, Dave .

Dave is brave . Dave
is not afraid to go in a cave .
I have a cat and ,
I have a sister too she has
she has a rat .
,

long yellow hair. And when she b

is scared , her hair is in the air. b
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! the past; we say “have” or “has” when
we talk about now or the future.

When I was three , , I had Yesterday I had a ham

a trike . Now I am six b ,
sandwich for my lunch . Today b
I have a bike . When I
Ihave a ham sandwich for
my lunch . Tomorrow I will b
grow up I will have a car;
,

I want to have a car so I ,

have a ham sandwich for
can drive it very far. b
my lunch – does anybody want b
a ham sandwich for lunch ? b
a
Note: A trike is a tricycle.
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! “had to” mean you are
supposed to.

When I had a cold ,

Why do I have to I had to stay in bed ;
eat my peas? I have a I had to blow my nose ,

bunny rabbit; he will eat them , b and my nose got red . b

please? And why do I b Today I have a headache ,

have to wash my plate – and my tongue is blue; b

do I have to use soap or , I think I have a fever –
can my bunny lick the plate ? b do I have to go to school?
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Sid slid down the slide .

Tim has a clock on every He slid down the slide a lot .
wall so Tim can see the
, His brother said “ Sid you’re
, ,

time . Tim can see when a very little kid be careful not b
,

the time is six and Tim

, to fall.” So Sid held tight
can see when the time to the side of the slide and,

is nine . Sid did not slide at all.

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If a frog and his wife

have a son and two daughters , b
then five little frogs would
be in the water. But if the
frog and his wife have two
If a frog had
sons and five daughters , a big , BIG mouth , b
then nine little frogs would smile
would his
be in the water. b be as wide
as a mile ?
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I like ice cream; ice

cream is nice . I like
If I had five ponies
,

I would ride them to

ice cream and so do my
,
the park but I would b
mice . My mice like ,

not ride my five

ice cream; every day they
ponies in the dark. b
eat it twice . So I need
lots of ice cream for myself
and for my mice .
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I hope you can hop My dog wrote my name b

over to that tree . b on a bone . Then he
I hope you can hop gave the bone to me.
faster than me because b I do not want to eat b
your shoes ran away b a bone but I thought
,

with your feet , feet , feet . b the gift was sweet. b

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I dug a hole so deep My dog dug a hole .

that I could not see my b He dug a hole for
pole inside
feet . I put a his bone . My dog dug
t he hole and the hole
, a deep deep hole to give
,

stole the pole . Yes , his bone a home .

the pole disappeared –
how weird! b
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This is a book ,

and that
is a bike . b

My pet pig Pete

, ,

has only three feet . b

And my pet pig Pete , , toys

likes to eat eat eat. b

, ,

These are my toys and,

those belong to Mike .

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toys

I likethese apples;
these apples are nice . See those toys over
These apples are so good there? Those toys are
that I bit them twice . But b mine . And those books
those apples over there , over there? Mine mine b
, ,

do not taste good . Do not b mine , but my brother plays b

eat those apples – they with those toys all the
are made of wood . b time. b
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If I gave someone a
I want to look cute so
, huge hug
big , ,

I need a cute hair cut . I would not hug a

But when they cut my hair , big huge bug – a
,

it was not very cute – bug much bigger than b

they only cut one hair... a mouse; a bug so huge
the hair right there. b it could hug a house.
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My teacher told us How do you use a

to use good manners hammer? How do you b
on the bus . She also use a nail? Each time
told us to use umbrellas I use a hammer I hit
,

in the rain so we don’t b

, my finger not the nail. b
,

get water on our brains. b

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