First part of lesson: Resort/rematch -at words and pictures (5-7 minutes)
On the 2nd day of working on our -at family, ALuv matched the words and pictures with minimal support from me. I asked him again how he knew when a word and picture matched, helping him to think again about his strategy. His answer was usually, “Because this picture starts with a __ and that word also starts with a ___.”
Upon introducing these words the first day, we were more focused on the initial consonant sound in each word. Today I wanted him to concentrate more on the -at part of the word. Instead of telling him that all the words had -at in them I wanted him to discover it himself.
Me: “Now, look at these words. Is there anything that’s the same about them?”
A: “They all have a t.”
Me: “Yes, that’s right. Anything else that’s the same?”
A: “Oh, they all have a‘s!”
Me: “So, they all have an a and t. Good discovery! Those two letters together say /at/. I’m going to say every word. Listen for the /at/.” I read each word like this “/s-at; sat/”. “Because they all have /at/ at the end of them, they are rhyming words.”
I handed ALuv a highlighter (kids love to play with highlighters…even middle schoolers!!) and he highlighted the -at chunk in each word.
Second part of lesson: reading -at words in context (about 10 minutes)
Book title: Cat on the Mat by Brian Wildsmith, which is a “predictable book” (controlled text). The illustrations tell a whole story within themselves. It’s basically about a cat who sits on a mat, but doesn’t want to share it with other animals who also come and sit on the mat.
I read the book to him aloud first, not necessarily to find the -at words; just for fun. He got a good laugh out of the illustrations and we talked about what happened in the story.
“Now, I’m going to read it again. This time, I want to see if we can find some -at words.” So we read it together again and found the -at words.
Then ALuv read the book with my support. This is a picture of him reading the book. He was very excited to read it and even read it to daddy when he got home from work. 🙂
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