OVER 200 PAGES AND INCLUDES LESSONS!
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In this coloring book, Block 1 of our four-block series, your child will get:
FIRST GRADE ENGLISH IN A COLORING BOOK – Whether you are homeschooling, teaching, or getting your kids ready for school, the Rat The Cat Reading Accelerator is the most fun a child can have while growing as a reader.
OVER 200 PAGES OF FUN – This is not a short coloring book with images copied off the internet, but a complete book of all the images from our full-color books, sized differently and simplified to accommodate the coloring-book format. Some pages are easy, some are harder.
FULL STORIES, NOT JUST SENTENCES – Rat and Dan have crazy adventure after crazy adventure. We have to start a bit simple due to limited vocabulary, but each story gets more involved and more fun. Rat is always getting into trouble!
PROGRESSIVE PHONICS – We use progressive phonics, not to teach a bunch of rules, but as a sensible method for introducing new letter combinations. We start easy, and each story builds on the previous story.
VOCABULARY, WEIRD WORDS, AND SENTENCES/DICTATION FOR EACH STORY – At the end of each lesson are two pages with the vocabulary/spelling words for that lesson, plus a list of "Weird Words" used in the story. Weird Words are just words than have not yet been introduced. There is also a page of sentences.
ORIGINAL IMAGES TO COLOR – We don't claim to be great artists, but we do put up original, fun drawings, with recurring characters caught up in many adventures.
FREE CERTIFICATES TO DOWNLOAD – At COLFAXMANN.COM you can download PDF files and print out 8" x 10" Blockhead Certificates for being able to read the entire book.
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MAGIC – Rat The Cat is a great product, but it's not the magic. You are. We know that. Our goal at COLFAXMANN.COM is to aid you, with fun products, in producing that magic.
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Here are the ten stories from Block 1 of the Rat The Cat Reading Accelerator:
1 "Cat In A Bag" — short a, consonant-vowel-consonant — Rat and Dan are in a van, when Sam comes along and things get fun.
2 "The Tame Ape" — long a, consonant-vowel-consonant-e — Rat and Dan go to the lake, where they encounter Dave, a tame ape. But how tame is Dave really?
3 "The Big Pig" — short i, consonant-vowel-consonant — Jane and Ranger Tim must save the day when the tame ape goes, well... ape.
4 "Pine Lake" — long i, consonant-vowel-consonant e— Rat goes to Pine Lake, but will he be safe? Probably not.
5 "The Big Dog" — short o, consonant-vowel-consonant — Rat and Dan on a log in a hot bog. Up comes a big dog. What could go wrong?
6 "The Mole Hole" — long o, consonant-vowel-consonant e, some -old words— Rat discovers a big mole-hole with a giant mole in it! Something HAS to happen!
7 "The Mud Bug" — short u, consonant-vowel-consonant — Rat is digging holes in the mud when up comes a giant mud bug. Oh no!
8 "The Rude Mule" — long u, consonant-vowel-consonant e, yu sound — Sam takes Rat to Pine Lake to ride mules. Rat's mule is big and rude, while Sam's mule is tiny.
9 "The Ten Men" — short e, consonant-vowel-consonant — Ten men, led by Ted, demand to pet Rat The Cat.
10 "The Peep" —, long e, consonant-ee-consonant — Did Rat take something home that he shouldn't have from the zoo?