Blumenfeld’s Alpha-Phonics

First Reader 4

Lessons 38 – 39

Phonics Skills: Two-Syllable Short Vowel Words

1. Jack had a hot-dog with rel-ish.
2. Jill put a bag of chips in the pic-nic bas-ket.
3. Meg’s tom-cat sat on top of the bas-ket.
4. Mom and Dad are in the cha-pel.
5. Val put lin-en on the bed.
6. Bill got a traf-fic tick-et.
7. Bill put the ticket in his jac-ket pock-et.
8. The traffic sig-nal was red. Phi-lip had a
pen-cil in his hand.
9. Ke-vin is a ras-cal.
10. Ken has a mas-cot.
11. Mom has a red sat-in bon-net.
12. Val has a vel-vet hat with a red rib-bon on it.
13. Mom put the satin bonnet in a hat-box.
14. Val put her velvet hat in a box with her sash.
15. The viv-id sun-set was ma-gic.
16. A rock-et can go up and up and up.
17. Phillip sat on a cac-tus. He got up and ran.
18. Was Philip up-set? Yes, Philip was upset.
But he had a les-son.
19. You can’t sit on a cactus.
20. When can Cal-vin vis-it his chum Kevin?
21. Kevin and Kar-en are in Ja-pan.
22. Calvin has a rab-bit as a pet.
23. Karen has a ten-nis lessons.
24. Kevin put a pencil in his pocket.
25. Karen has a tab-let and a pencil.
26. The cam-el sat on the picnic basket.
27. Did that upset Mom? Yes, it did.
28. Can a tomcat run with a rabbit?
29. Can a rabbit mim-ic a tomcat?
30. Pat-rick put his hat on the hat-rack.
31. Kevin put his jacket on the hat-rack.
 Can Kevin put his com-bat hel-met on the
hatrack. No, he can’t. A helmet is not a bonnet,
and the hatrack is full of hats.
Philip had a den-tal ex-am. He had a check-up
and his gums are well.
Calvin sat on the deck un-til sunset.
Meg’s pet rabbit is in the at-tic.
Can Meg’s chum, Calvin, visit the attic?
Kevin is bash-ful, but Karen is not. She can be
a rascal. She can sit on a camel and get it to run
at a gal-lop.
 Karen is full of fun. She can mimic a pup-pet.
But she can’t sit on a bob-cat. Karen put
Calvin’s jacket in the wag-on. Did the jacket
van-ish? No, it didn’t vanish. Calvin put Karen’s
lock-et in his jacket pockets. Did the locket
vanish? No, the locket was hid-den in the
pocket.
Peg’s hus-band, Ted has a red van. Ted put the
van in the shed and locked the shed with a pad-
lock.
 A camel can gallop with a chick on its back.
But a rabbit can’t gallop with a chick on its
back. Rabbits can hop and chicks can run, but
they cannot gallop.
Dad is a vet and was in combat. He won a
med-al. His combat helmet is in the attic. The
medal is hidden in a box in the log cab-in.
Mom’s dad had a cabin when she was a kid. The
cabin had six cots for six kids.
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First Reader 4
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This Power Point Presentation was produced for my Cursive

Road to Reading and Spelling with Blumenfeld’s Alpha-
Phonics classes at the Odessa Christian School, Odessa, TX.
Revised May 30, 2021

December 28, 2010 by Donald L. Potter, Odessa, TX.

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