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Letters introduced in this book

EASY READING SERIES

MIZ KATZ N. RATZ

T.M.

Nat’s Nine Noses

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Copyright © 2015 by Miz Katz N. Ratz All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Produced in the United States of America.

First Edition, 2015

Progressive Phonics LLC Los Angeles, CA

www.ProgressivePhonics.com

Acknowledgments

To all the cats I have had the goodfortune to meet.

Alphabetti Book #2Nat’s Nine NosesWritten and illustrated by Miz Katz N. Ratz

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Quick Start Guide ............................ 4

Lesson One, the letter ‘n’ ............... 6

Nat’s Nine Noses , Part 1 ........ 10

Lesson Two, letter ‘m’ vs ‘n’............. 21

Nat’s Nine Noses , Part 2........... 25

Lesson Three, ‘can’ + ‘cam’............. 31

Nat’s Nine Noses , Part 3............ 33

Lesson Four, ‘am’................................. 45

Nat’s Nine Noses , Part 4............ 46

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Don’t rush it. Body-builders don’t train in a day – neither does a child.

And most important ofall, HAVE FUN!

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.

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

Quick Start Guide

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IMPORTANT!

– Read this book several times (manytimes if needed) over a time period of one or two weeks.

– At first, children may have difficulty with the letters ‘m’ and ‘n,’ but with practice, this will become easier.

– Don’t expect perfection the first few times you read this book. Repetition,stretched out over time (and not justjammed into a single day), is the key to success.

– Keep it light and fun. Learning a “love of reading” is just as important as learning the alphabet because this is what will carry children through the hundreds of hours of reading that arerequired to develop true fluency.

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Lesson 1

This is the letter ‘n’ –

The letter ‘n’ says “-nn- for nose.” Can you say “-nn- for nose”?

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Nine nice nails.

Nick never naps at night.

No noisy noses!

We use the “-nn-” sound in lots of words, like:

Lesson 1

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Answer: Nail, needle, nurse, nose.

Show me the pictures that start with the “-nn–” sound.

Lesson 1

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Lesson 1

Here is a word we can make with the letter ‘n’ – can you read it?

natGood! Let’s start the story...

Nat is a boy’s name and is short for the name, Nathaniel. Nat rhymes with cat.

Note: In our Alphabetti books, we don’t use ANY uppercase letters in the “big redword,” so names are not capitalized. Uppercase letters will be taught later.

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Most cats have bnine lives, but no, bnot .nat

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nat cat the

has nine noses. b

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nat calls the big

noses Mathew, Mandy, bMoustache and Mark b

Mathew Mandy MoustacheMark

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And the little noses bSnort, Sneeze, Snuffle, bSnivel and Sniff. b

Snort Sneeze Snuffle SniffSnivel

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One day, nattook the nine noses bout for a walk. b

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They did not run bbecause no one blikes a runny nose. b

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As usual, and natthe noses went to all bthe smelly places. b

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A bakery.

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A candy store.

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A flower shop.

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And last, because natinsisted, they went to bthe smelliest place of all: bthe fish store. b

FISH SHOP

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Lesson 2

The letter ‘n’ is the little brotherof the letter ‘m’ –

Meet amonkey.

No noisy noses.

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Lesson 2

The letter ‘m’ has TWO bumps...

A monkey always has a tail, so the letter ‘m’ always has two bumps.

The second bumps is the monkey’s tail.

The first bump is the monkey.

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Lesson 2

The letter ‘n’ has ONE bump...

... same for noses. People and animals only have ONE nose, just like the letter ‘n’ only has ONE bump.

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Lesson 2

Can you read these two words?

matnat

Now show me which word goes with which picture.

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stood on the nat in front of the mat

fish store and breathed bin the lovely smell. b

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FISH SHOP

“Let’s go inside!” said b, wiping his feet nat

on the . mat b

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“Ewwwww!” said bthe noses. b

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“Aw, come on, guys,” bsaid on the natmat. “It will be

fun!” b28

But the noses stood bfar away from the b

and shookmattheir little heads. b

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“Fine!” said naton the . “I will matgo in all by myself. bBe good!” b

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Lesson 3

The letter ‘n’ can also go at the end of words, like in the word‘can’ –

can

I can

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Lesson 3

Show me which word goes with which picture.

I can

can cat

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While was in natthe fish shop, the nine bnoses had a meeting. b

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Moustache, the eldest bnose, said, “Listen up, beveryone. you cankeep a secret?”b

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“We ! We cancan!” squealed

all the little noses. b

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“Good,” said Moustache, b“because today is a b

bbirthday...”

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“Aaachoo!” said little bSneeze. “ I canhave a birthday?” b

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“Of course you ,” cansaid Moustache, but not btoday – today we say b Happy Birthday to .”nat

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“ we buy him cana present?” said bSnort. b

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“I wish we could,” said bbMoustache, “but we

bdon’t have any money.”

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“So what canwe do?” said bSnuffle. b

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Through the window, bMoustache could see bnat sniffing the fat

fishes in their baskets. b

SNIFFSNIFF

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“I think I have an idea,” said bMoustache. “When natcomes out of the store, keep bhim busy. you do that?”can

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“Yes, we !”cansaid the noses. b

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Lesson 4

Here is another word we can make with the letters we know:

am

I a dog.am

I happy.am

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When came out natof the fish shop, he bstood on the matand counted the noses. bb 46

“Oh, no!” said .nat“Someone is missing!” b

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nat pulled a long

piece of paper from bhis pocket. “Mandy – bare you here?” b

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“Yes, I here!”am

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“Good. Now, bMathew – are b

byou here?”

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“Yes, I !” am

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“Sniff?”

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All the noses sniffed.

SNIFFSNIFFSNIFF

SNIFF

SNIFF SNIFF

SNIFF

SNIFFS

NIF

F

SN

IFF

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“Stop being silly!” said b. “Sneeze?” nat

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All the noses sneezed.

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“Aaaah!” nat saton the . “This is matgoing nowhere!” b

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Just thenn, Moustache m

ran around the corner, bholding a big bunch bof balloons... b

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...and all the noses bbstarted to sing.

Optional:

To see what the noses sounded like, let’s hold our noses and sing the Birthday song.

(As you sing, “send” the sound through your nose to make it as nasal as possible.)

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Moustache gave the balloons bto . “They are special,” natsaid Moustache. “I filled them bwith air from the fish shop!” b

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“Oh, wow!” said . nat“I so happy. amThanks, guys. This is bthe best birthday ever!” b

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When they got home, bnat popped one of the

balloons, and the scent of bfresh fish filled the room. b

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“Aaaaaaaaah!” said b nat.

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“Ewwwwww!” said bthe noses. b

THE END

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