Exercise 3-1 :

Word-by-Word and in a Sentence

that

He said th't it's OK.

than

It's bigger th'n before

as

'z soon'z he gets here...

at

Look' t the time!

and

ham'n eggs

have

Where h'v you been

had

He h'd been at home.

can

C'n you do it

Exercise 3-2:

Finding , , and Sounds

There are five ,

ten ,

and seventy-five sounds in the following paragraph.

Underscore them in pen or pencil.

The first one of each sound is marked for you.

Next, check your answers with the Answer Key, beginning on page 193.

Finally, take your markers and give a color to each sound.

For example,

mark green,

blue, and yellow.

Turn your CD off

and read the paragraph three times on your own.

Exercise 3-3:

Vowel-Sound Differentiation

Here we will read down from 1 to 24,

then we will read each row across.

Give the sound a clear double sound ee.

Also, the o is a longer sound than you might be expecting.

Add the full ooh sound after each "o."

Ann

ban

can

cat

Dan

fan

gap

hat

Jan

lamp

man

matter

Nan

gnat

pan

ran

sand

shall

chance

tack

van

wax

yam

zap

on

bond

con

caught/cot

Don/dawn

fawn

gone

hot

John

lawn

monster

motto

non

not/knot

pawn

Ron

sawn

Sean

chalk

talk

Von

want

yawn

czar

un~

bun

come

cut

done

fun

gun

hut

jump

lump

Monday

mutter

none/nun

nut

pun

run

sun

shut

chuck

tuck

vug

won/one

young

result

across

1.

Ann

on

un~

2.

ban

bond

bun

3.

can

con

come

4.

cat

caught/cot

cut

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Exercise 3-4:

Reading the Sound

The Tn Mn

A fashionably tan man

sat casually at the bat stand,

lashing a handful of practice bats.

The manager,

a crabby old bag of bones,

passed by and laughed,

"You're about average, Jack.

Can't you lash faster than that"

Jack had had enough,

so he clambered to his feet

and lashed bats faster

than any man had ever lashed bats.

As a matter of fact,

he lashed bats so fast

that he seemed to dance.

The manager was aghast.

"Jack, you're a master bat lasher!"

he gasped.

Satisfied at last,

Jack sat back

and never lashed another bat.

Pause the CD and read The Tn Mn aloud.

Turn it back on to continue.

Exercise 3-5:

Reading the Sound

A Lt of Lng, Ht Walks in the Garden

John was not sorry

when the boss called off the walks

in the garden.

Obviously, to him,

it was awfully hot,

and the walks were far too long.

He had not thought

that walking

would have caught on

the way it did,

and he fought the policy

from the onset.

At first,

he thought he could talk it over

at the law office

and have it quashed,

but a small obstacle*

halted that thought.

The top lawyers always bought coffee

at the shop across the lawn

and they didn't want to stop

on John's account.

John's problem was not office politics,

but office policy.

He resolved the problem

by bombing the garden.

Pause the CD

and read A Lt of Lng, Ht Wlks in the Grden aloud.