Phonics Book 2 (short vowel e)

Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them. The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out, or, in phonics terms, blending the soundspelling patterns. Since it focuses on the spoken and written units within words, phonics is a sublexical approach and, as a result, is often contrasted with whole language, a wordlevelup philosophy for teaching reading. Since the turn of the 20th century, phonics has been widely used in primary education and in teaching literacy throughout the Englishspeaking world. More specifically, synthetic phonics is now the accepted method of teaching reading in the education systems in the UK and Australia.

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Copyright (c) 2004 2005 by Miz Katz N Ratz, patent pending

Don’t rush it Body builders

don’t train in a day, neither

does a child.

And most important of

If your child is having difficulty, he/she might need more practice with the alphabet Get a fun book about the alphabet and

read that lots of times Then come back

to Progressive Phonics.

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.

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Read the book several times This helps develop the eye muscles and left-to-right reading patterns that are necessary for reading.

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A

Book

Table of contents:

ed ed fed led red Ted wed Zed

beg keg leg peg

Ben den Fen hen Ken men pen ten Zen

bet get jet let met pet set vet wet yet

Rex Tex vex

Mix it up

If I fed my dog bananas

My brother, Ted

My cousin Zed is soon to wed

My dog has one leg in the water

If I was a pirate

My dog can beg for dinner

Ben has a hen

When I turn ten

Ben has ten of everything

Today I met a monkey at the zoo

Will you let me drive the car

For my birthday

I always set the table

When I ask my dad to stop for a soda

I took my pet to see the vet

Never, ever let your pet

I know two dogs called Rex and Tex

I met a man

If I get wet

If I my dog bananas,

would he turn into a monkey,

and would they take him to the zoo?

would he turn into a kid,

and would he be like me and you?

fed

fed

fed fed

b

b

b

b

counting lots of sheep

Ted red bed

bed red

b

b

My cousin, , is soon to ,

to sing about his wedding ring

I cough, I sneeze, I’m hot, I freeze

Ed

red red

bed

b

b

My dog has one in the water;

I really don’t know why

leg leg

leg

b

If I was a pirate,

I would call my parrot Polly

My dog can for dinner.

for what I eat

beg beg

beg beg beg beg beg

b

Ben hen Ken

hen

Ben

and all his friends just laugh at him

again and again

b

and

and

b

When I turn , I want a

so I can write,

again and again and again

Ben Ken Zen Fen

Ben Fen Zen Ken

Ben Zen Fen Zen

pen ten Ben Ken Zen Fen

b b

b

and puts on a pair of stinky socks.

and runs downstairs in his stinky feet

I guess there’s nothing I can do –

Today I a monkey at the zoo.

His name was Fred; he was really cute.The monkey that I

was eating a banana

The monkey that I

was wearing a bandana

The monkey that I

came home with me –

aren’t you glad I didn’t meet three?

met

met met met

b b

b b

b

Will you me drive the car,

when I turn eight?

let

let let

b

For my birthday,

and a dog called Spike

Wait!

It’s MY birthday, ding-a-ling!

get get get

I always the table.

then my baby brother messes it up

set set

set

set

b b

Not yet

When I ask my dad to stop for a soda,

b yet

yet yet

yet bet

I took my to see the – my

that giant pill I pushed and pulled and

down the hill

They rolled and rolled and rolled until

pet

pet pet

Never, ever your

all the way to Zanzibar,

is living now in Zanzibar,

playing a piano or a bass guitar

b

b

b

I know two dogs

vex Rex Tex

vex Rex Tex

M ii x ii tt

When a child is comfortable reading the

Big Red Words in this book, he/she is

ready for “Mix It Up” – the part of the book where the child practices reading a variety

of short vowel words.

on the way to the sea

I will run away.

I think I would rather

can vex

nap

bed ran

Ed

yap yap yap

Pam can nap lap Ken

yap yap yap

Pam can get mad

and his socks got lost

A progressive phonics book