ALPHABETTI BOOKS

Introducing the letter ‘h’

EASY READING SERIES

MIZ KATZ N. RATZ

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Han The Hippo

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

For my awesome son, Connor, without whomthese books wouldn’t exist.

Alphabetti Book #6han the hippoWritten and illustrated by Miz Katz N. Ratz

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

Lesson One, the letter ‘h’ ............... 5

Han The Hippo............................. 9

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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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Lesson 1

This is the letter ‘h’ –

The letter ‘h’ says “-h- for horse.” Can you say “-h- for horse”?

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Happy horse,ha, ha, ha.

Hug a hairyheart.

Who’s a hungryhippo?

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

Lesson 1

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Answer: Hat, horse, hippo, house.

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

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Lesson 1

Here are two words we can make with the letter ‘h’ – can you read them?

hathan

(“Han” is the name of the hero in this book, Han the Handsome Hippo. ‘Han” rhymes with “can” and “man.”)

Handsome Hippo, bor for short,han

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hated his hair – it blooked like a fork. b

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So he always wore

a on his head.hat“Now I handsome,amha, ha!” he said. b

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Then one day his b was gone –hat

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han forgot

he had it on. b

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han ran outside.

“Who has my ?hatWhoever you are, bgive it back!” b

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And then he thought, b“Oh! Someone could bsee my horrible hair. bNo, that cannot be!” b

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han ran back

inside and grabbed ba sheet b

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and covered bhimself, except bfor his feet. b

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Then he got on the bphone and called the bpolice. “My hatwas stolen by a thief!” b

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“I will be right bthere,” said Shirley b

bthe sheep.

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Then she jumped binto her big blue b

bjeep.

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han stood waiting

in the breeze; his bsheet flap-flapping b’round his knees. b

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Then a big bwind blew the bsheet up high. b

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“Oh, no! My bhair! I have bto hide!” b

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han grabbed

a pen and left ba note. b

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“Please find bmy – I hathad to go.” b

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han hid in a bush

so the cop wouldn’t bsee his horrible hair. bNo, that cannot be. b

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Shirley read bthe note upon bthe door. b

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Then she followed bthe footprints on bthe floor. b

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And there, in a bbush, she saw bthe .hat

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Tall and purple, bjust like that. b

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“Aha!” she said. b b“You are the thief!” b

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han tried to

hide. “It wasn’t bme!” b

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“You have the b upon yourhat

head.” b

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“No, I don’t!” bthe hippo said. b

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Then reached up, han band what did he find? b“Ha, ha!” he said. b“This is mine!” hat b

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But another big wind bcame down from the bsky and took that b

and made it fly.hat36

“Noooooo!” said b. “Don’t look han

at me. I don’t want banyone to see...” b

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“See what?” bsaid Shirley. b“A dancing bear?” b

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“No!” said .han“My horrible hair!” b

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Shirley laughed. b“You silly hippo.b

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“My hair’s like ba pink flamingo. b

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“Learn to love bthe way you are. b

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“There’s only one byou, and you’re b

ba star.”

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han smiled. He

felt a little better. b

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And now he wears a b only when the hat

weather’s wetter. b

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