T.M.

Alphabetti Book 1-A

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.

the

c-a-t
cat

Help your child sound out

the words as needed.

Read the book many times. This

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

Miz Katz N. Ratz

Dont rush it. Body builders

dont train in a day, neither
does a child.

ABC

ABC

T.M.

A Progressive Phonics book

Copyright (c) 2007 by Miz Katz N. Ratz, patent pending

alphabetti box

Use the handwriting worksheets

when children write what they learn,
they learn it better.

Dont worry about upper-case

letters or capitalizing proper
nouns. Uppercase letters are
taught in a later book.

(letters practiced in this book)

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This is the letter o the letter o

looks like a ball, doesnt it?

o
3

The letter o says, -o- as in ox.

octopus, and ostrich.

o
4

-o-

Lets make the letter o with our

hands

-o-

This is the letter d the letter

d says duh as in dog, daisy
and duck.

And what does the letter o say?

(have the child make the letter o
sound several times)

Pronunciation guide:
The NAME of the letter o is pronounced
oh (as in go and no and owe)
The SOUND of the letter ois pronounced
o (as in hot, dog, and on).

The letter d is made of a ball and

a stick see...

Lets use our hands to make the

letter d

-d-

d
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This hand is
the ball

And this hand

is the stick

And what does the letter d say?

(Have the child make the letter d
sound several times.)

This is the letter g the letter g

says guh as in goat, girl and gorilla.

The letter g is also made of a ball

and a stick, but this time, the ball is
at the TOP of the stick see...

g
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10

Lets use our hands to make the

letter g

-g-

Lets see what we can do with

these letters...lets sound out the
letters, and see what this
says

dog

This hand is
the ball
And this hand
is the stick

And what does the letter g say?

(Have the child make the letter g
sound several times.)

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Heres another word we can make with

these letters

dod
dod

dog
a ve r y l o n g d o g .

13

is a

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d o d is such a
long d o g that he
cannot fit on just one
page.

Eve r y m o r n i n g ,
the

d o g g o e s fo r

a wa l k a ro u n d t h e b l o c k .

g
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dod

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d o d is so long
g
f ro m h i s wa l k , h i s o t h e r g
e n d i s j u s t l e av i n g. g
that when he gets back

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dod
h a s a d o g n a p.
Just as soon as d o d
fa l l s a s l e e p. . . d
Eve r y d ay ,

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... the other end of

dod

park,

wa k e s u p

a n d i s re a d y t o p l ay .

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O n e d ay a t t h e

dod

dog
bumps

into his other end.

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dod.
The other end of g
d o d wa g s h i s
tail. g
H e l l o ! s ay s

dod

dog
has no idea that his d
new best friend is d
his other end. d
the

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