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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 ABC Written and illustrated by Copyright (c) 2007 by Miz Katz N. Ratz, patent pending A Progressive Phonics book T.M. Alphabetti Book 1-G Miz Katz RatzN. alphabetti box d o g b a i p j + q (letters practiced in this book) T.M. 2 andand q 43 This is the letter “q” – the letter “q” says “kwuh-” as in queen, quack, quilt, and quiet. q The letter “q” is made of a ball and a stick. qq And what does the letter “q” say? (Have the child make the letter “q” sound several times.) 5 6 The letter “q” looks a lot like the letter “g”, except that the letter “g” looks like he is smiling, and the letter “q” has a little foot – gg qq Let’s use our hands to make the letters “q” and “g” – - -g - -q Here is the letter “g” – Stick your thumb out to make the little foot. And here is the letter “q” – 87 Look at all the words we can make with the letters we know... b i g b a d b o b b a g d o d d o g d i g d i d p i g p o p q a g j a b j o b j o g dod bob dog qag q and meet a duck at the park . “He l lo ! ” says the duck . “My name i s , and th i s i s my brother, . ” g q 109 bob dod qag jog dog qag bag , and go for a around the i s care fu l wi th the but . . . park . d qag big bag big q dad qag opens a . Ins ide i s a egg wi th a le t ter on i t . “ I am egg -s i t t ing for my , ” says . d qq qq qq 1211 bob dod qag q big , and run af ter but they can’t catch the egg before i t goes ( sp lash ! ! ) in to a lake . b b . . . the catches on a branch and breaks , mak ing a loud sound. Poor ro l l s out o f the and down a h i l l . bag pop q bag big b qq oppopp qq qq “Oh, no !” says . “My not teach me how to swim. Th i s i s – th i s i s very , very . ” qag dad did bad bad b 1413 And what do? jumped in to the water to save . And i f cou ld speak , he would say “He lp ! I can’t swim e i ther ! ” did bob bob q bob b b 1615 bob big bob q big bob dod s inks to the bottom of the lake. f inds and gives him a hug. knows that wi l l save them. b Meantime, runs up the h i l l Maybe another at the park can rescue and . dod big dog dog bob q qq Now remember, and are two ends of the same . So when gets h igh enough up the h i l l . . . dod bob dog dod b 1817 . . . fee l s someth ing pu l l ing h im. does not have eyes , so he can’t see who i s pu l l ing h im, but someone or someth ing i s pu l l ing h im up. . . up. . . up. . . bob bob d d d d qq A few minutes la ter, comes back wi th a to rescue , but and are a l ready safe . dod big dog bob bob q d 2019 bob q pop pop pop bob q grabs and before you can say , , , and are pu l led up and out o f the water. d qq qq The impor tant th ing i s that i s safe . and g ive each other a hug. Best f r i ends forever ! d d bob dod bob big THE END21 dod did bob qag q did did did bob looks around. Who rescue ? Not , not . . . then who, who, who? But i t rea l ly matter who or not rescue ? qq Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11