Dress-Up

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e-ISBN 1-58824-463-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Leonard, Marcia.
Dress-up / Marcia Leonard ; photographs by Dorothy Handelman.
p. cm. (Real kids readers. Level 1)
Summary: A young girl plays dress-up and imagines being a cat, a bird, a movie star,
a doctor, and more.
ISBN 0-7613-2053-9 (lib. bdg.). ISBN 0-7613-2078-4 (pbk.)
[1. Play Fiction. 2. Imagination Fiction. 3. Stories in rhyme.] I. Handelman, Dorothy, ill.
II. Title. III. Series.
PZ8.3.L54925Dr 1999
[E] dc21

For Sarah Riecke, who inspired this book,

and for her sister, Elena, who like to dress up too
M. L.

For Nora, Sarah, and Jacob

my three favorite characters
D. H.
 Dress-Up
By Marcia Leonard
Photographs by Dorothy Handelman
 I like to dress up.

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 It’s fun to see
what I can be.

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 I can be a cat.
See my soft fur?

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 I like to nap.
I like to purr.

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 I can be a man.
See my big hat?

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 I can be thin.
I can be fat.

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 I am a small bird.
I have a nest.

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 I like to eat bugs,
but worms are best.

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 Now I’m a star.
My dress is red.

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 Now I’m a baby,
all set for bed.

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 I like to dress up.

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 It’s fun to see
what I can be.

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 But best of all,
I like to be . . .

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 ME!

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 Phonic Guidelines
Use the following guidelines to help your child read the words in Dress-Up.

Short Vowels
When two consonants surround a vowel, the sound of the vowel is usually short. This
means you pronounce a as in apple, e as in egg, i as in igloo, o as in octopus, and u as in
umbrella. Short-vowel words in this story include: bed, big, bugs, but, can, cat, fat, fun,
hat, man, nap, red, set.

Short-Vowel Words with Beginning Consonant Blends

When two different consonants begin a word, they usually blend to make a combined
sound. A word in this story with a beginning consonant blend is dress.

Short-Vowel Words with Ending Consonant Blends

When two different consonants end a word, they usually blend to make a combined sound.
Words in this story with ending consonant blends include: best, nest, soft.

R-Controlled Vowels
When a vowel is follwed by the letter r, its sound is changed by the r. Words in this story
with r-controlled vowels include: bird, for, fur, purr, star.

Double Consonants
When two identical consonants appear side by side, one of them is silent. In this story,
double consonants appear in the all-family, words all and small.

Sight Words
Sight words are those words that a reader must learn to recognize immediately by sight
instead of by sounding them out. They occur with high frequency in easy texts. Sight
words not included in the above categories are: a, am, be, eat, have, I, is, like, me, my, of,
see, to, up who.