Pat the Cat (Suffix)

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Creative Commons BY-NC Adapted from "Tommy The Greedy Cat" by Mkhancane Daniel Ndove and Adrie Le Roux. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Free Decodable Reader with es Plurals | Pat the Cat

Practice Words

Two-syllable words with common suffixes such as -ness, -ment, -er, -ful, -less, and -ly.

quality reality security vanity
Page 1
Cat lounges on a tree branch watching birds while a girl waves happily outside her house with a car parked nearby.

Pat the cat does not have a home. Most of the time he does not mind. He naps in a tree that he likes and gets food from the Jones family.

Page 2
Cat hides in bushes watching a girl walk past while her parents load suitcases into a red car.

What is this? The Jones family are going on a trip? Pat will not have any food put out for him. The reality hits him.

Page 3
Grumpy cat climbs through a red window frame at night while a milk bottle and cup sit on the kitchen table.

Pat knows that there is a lot of food in the Jones house. He get in through a window to see what he can find. Lucky the Jones family do not have a security alarm.

Page 4
Mischievous cat knocks over a bag of snacks and happily munches on the spilled treats.

There is a string of bags. What is inside? Pat scratches and bites at the bags to open them. And then…

Page 5
Cat messily devours snacks from a torn bag, with crumbs and pieces flying everywhere.

Bang! The chips burst out. He thinks that they are good quality. They taste great! Pat eats all of them.

Page 6
Cat prowls through kitchen mess with spilled jam, crackers, bread, and scattered food items everywhere.

Pat goes on desks and in bins. He finds treats here and there. He eats bread, meat and spreads.

Page 7
Excited cat licks its lips looking at an open refrigerator full of delicious food including turkey, cake, and cheese.

One day, Pat finds that he can open the fridge. That is the best day. There is cheese, milk and cold cuts.

Page 8
Hungry cat imagines eating various foods including cheese, pie, carrots, fried egg, chicken leg, steak, and apple.

Pat ate it all. He did not know the last time that he could have as much food as he liked. He had been on the street a long time.

Page 9
Gray and white cat sleeps peacefully on a brown armchair at night with a ball of red yarn nearby.

Pat got fat. He started to feel a bit sick. Even so, he still wanted to find more food to eat. He could not stop.

Page 10
Satisfied cat lies on its back after raiding the open refrigerator, with food scattered on shelves and floor.

Pat had no vanity about the way that he looked. He did not mind being a fat cat if he felt full. He cleared out the fridge.

Page 11
Cat squeezes through window at night as a car with headlights drives away in the rainy darkness.

But when the Jones family came back, Pat found that he could not get out of the window. He wanted to get up into his tree, but he was too fat.

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Upset family stands together looking disappointed with the crying daughter hugging her mother while father looks sad.

When the Jones family got inside, they thought that there might have been a thief! There was such a mess all over the house. But then

Page 13
Guilty-looking cat sits alone on a beige armchair with a torn snack bag on the floor nearby.

they saw Pat. They felt for him. They did not know that he had no home. They just thought that he liked it in his tree.

Page 14
Happy girl with curly hair hugs and cuddles her beloved gray and white cat surrounded by leaves and a brush.

The Jones family took Pat in. They looked after him. They washed him and brushed him They gave him the right amount of food. Pat loves being in the Jones family. And he still has his tree.

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