T.M.

Alphabetti Book 2-D

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.

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.

Don’t rush it. Body builders ABC

ABC
don’t train in a day, neither

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does a child.

Use the handwriting worksheets –

A Progressive Phonics book when children write what they learn,
Copyright (c) 2007 by Miz Katz N. Ratz, patent pending they learn it better.

alphabetti box
Don’t worry about upper-case
letters or capitalizing proper
nouns. Uppercase letters are
d o g b a i p j s m n + e taught in a later book.

(letters learned previously)

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This is the letter “e” – the letter “e” The letter “e” looks like a snake
says “eh” like in elephant, egg, Eskimo, curled over and tickling its tummy:

e
elevator and electricity.

e And what does the letter “e” say?

(Have the child make the letter “e”
sound several times.)

And let’s see who can make the

“eh” sound the longest!

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Let’s use our hands to make the Here are some words we can make with
letter “e” – the letter “e” –
-e-
ben
bed
What does the letter “e” say?
(”eh!”)
pen
men
And let’s practice our “snake” letters —

-s- -m- -n- -e-

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Words used in this book:

ben sis
bed sid
bad did
big nap s i d the snake has a
pen am ve r y b i g fa m i l y , a n d

pin on o n e d ay , h i s c o u s i n d

in b e n came to visit.

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s i d takes one look at “ N o, n o, ” s ay s ben.
b e n a n d s ay s , “ M y “I a m fine.” b

d
g o o d n e s s ! N o wo n d e r t h e y “ N o n s e n s e ! ” s ay s s i d .

call you b e n the p e n . “ Yo u a re s i c k ! Yo u m u s t b

Yo u’ re a s t h i n a s a p i n ! go to b e d immediately!”

A re y o u i l l ? ” d
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s i d tucks b e n into sid,
“ N o n s e n s e , ” s ay s

b e d and tells him to “n a p time!” s i d

take a nice, long n a p . curls up next to the d

“ B u t I a m n o t t i re d , ” b e d to take a n a p
s ay s b e n . o f h i s ow n . S o o n , h i s s n o re s b
a re ro c k i n g t h e c a g e . b
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T h e c a g e ro c k s s o m u c h t h a t Just then, s i d wa k e s u p
s i s fa l l s o f f h e r s h e l f a n d f ro m h i s n a p . “ H e l l o,

lands o n top of b e n . b e n , ” s ay s s i d , “ I
“ O u c h ! ” s ay s , b e n . “ W h o s e e y o u’ve a l re a d y m e t s i s .

a re y o u ? ” B u t s i s d o e s n’t I s n’t s h e j u s t t h e c l e ve re s t d

s ay a n y t h i n g. d p e r s o n i n t h e wo r l d ? ! ” d
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b e n pokes s i s b e n looks closely at s i s .
i n t h e t u m m y . “ I d o n’t “ H ow c a n s h e t a l k ? . S h e d o e s n’t

k n ow, ” s ay s b e n . “ S h e e ve n h ave a m o u t h . . . ” s

d o e s n’t t a l k ve r y m u c h . . . ” p “ b e n , ” s ay s s i d ,

“ N o n s e n s e ! ” s ay s s i d . “ y o u a re s i c k e r t h a n I t h o u g h t . b

“She talks all the time.” p Back to b e d with you!”

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“ N o ! ” s ay s b e n . “I a m b e n rips off his purple
not sick – she is! . She is so sick
h a t . “ O h , y e a h ? We l l , h ow a
t h a t s h e i s n o t e ve n a m o u s e ! ” d about this? I a m not a
“ H ow d a re y o u s ay s u c h a d s n a k e – I a m a wo r m ! A n d
t h i n g , ” s ay s s i d . “ s i s
I a m SUPPOSED to be as
i s m o re re a l t h a n y o u a re ! ” d
thin as a p i n !”
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s i d g a s p s i n h o r ro r. b e n the p e n
“ Yo u a re a wo r m ? ” a d i d n o t s t ay l o n g a f t e r
“ T h a t ’s r i g h t ! ” s ay s b e n . t h a t . s i d c o u l d g e t ove r

“ Yo u r c o u s i n , b e n t h e b e n b e i n g a wo r m , b u t h e
p e n , i s a WO R M ! G e t c o u l d n o t fo rg i ve . h i m fo r s ay i n g

ove r i t ! ” a b a d things about s i s .

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 sid
...oh,
you’re so smart!

“ D o n’t wo r r y , ” s ay s sid s i d laughs and eats

to s i s . “ I k n ow y o u’ re a b i g piece of chocolate.

re a l . ” s i s c a n’t a n s we r, “ W h a t n e x t , s i s ? M ay b e

s o s i d s p e a k s fo r h e r. some idiot is going to tell me s

“ O h , s i d , y o u’ re s o s
t h a t y o u h ave n o fe e t o r

smart... and handsome too!” d something silly like that!” s

.” THE END
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