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Learning to Read with Phonics
and the Man
with a Scab
AB Family words used in this story. Story Questions.
Put a line under the correct answer.

drab 1. What kind of day was it?

crab a. sunny
cab b. rainy
fab c. drab
gab
blab 2. What did the crab ride in?
tab a. a cab
scab b. a bus
nab c. a train
flab
grab 3. Who tried to grab the crab?
slab a. a man with a badge
jab b. a man with a dog
stab c. man with a scab
dab
4. What did the crab run under?
a. a bridge
b. a slab
c. a car

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Fill in the blank with the correct word from
the “ab” family.

1. The day was too ________ for the crab.

2. The ________ and the _________

bugged the crab.

3. The crab stopped the _______ and paid

the ________.

4. A man with a ________ tried to

________ the crab.

5. Because of his ________, the man could

not ________.
The day was too drab
6. The crab ran under a ________. for the crab.
7. The man with the scab tried to
________ the crab.
So the crab took a cab
8. The man with the scab stopped to
_______ his scab.
to a place that was fab.

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But the gab and the Now, the gab in the cab
blab bugged the crab, didn’t bother the crab.

And the day didn’t seem

too drab for the crab.

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the crab made a dash So the crab stopped the
for the cab. cab and paid the tab.

Page 11 Page 4
A man with a scab When the man with the
tried to nab the crab, scab stopped to dab
when the crab got out his scab,
of the cab.

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The man with the scab Because of his flab,
tried to stab the crab. the man could not grab.
But the crab jumped
away from the stab.

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So the crab ran under The man with the scab
a slab. tried to jab the crab.
But the crab stayed
under the slab.

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