While reading the story "Seven Fat Cats", students will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
Intended Learning Outcomes
5. Understand and use basic concepts and skills.
6. Communicate clearly in oral, artistic, written and nonverbal form.
Process Skills
Symbolization, observation, description, prediction
Invitation to Learn
“Have you ever seen a cat sitting on a wall? This story is about seven
fat cats sitting on a wall.”
Instructional Procedures
First, read the story for enjoyment. Before the second reading, ask the children
to listen for rhymes and look for a pattern. Discuss what they observed in listening
to the story. Have the children read the story with you the second time.
Steps to follow for sound board activity:
Possible Extensions/Adaptations
Sing “Seven Fat Cats” to the tune “Mary Had A Little Lamb”.
Have seven children act out the story as the rest of the class reads the story.
The next day, read the story again and have seven different children act out
the story as the rest of the children read it.
Could the children retell the story?
Did the children make any text to self or text to text connections after hearing
the story?
Could the children remember the rhyming words?
Did the children predict the story pattern?
Were the children able to hear the focus sound in the sound board activity?