Overview
The children will draw a rat, cat, and bat while they add sounds to the -at ending to make words such as bat, rat, cat, and fat.

Literacy Activities
Draw a rat, a cat, and a bat

• Write the -at ending three times on a whiteboard and show the children how you can add the letters r, c, or b in front of -at and make a new word. 
• Read the Is it a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat? target text.
• Explain that you will show the children how they can change a rat into a cat, and a cat into a bat.
• Draw a rat, cat, and bat by following the drawing instructions:
  • Hand out pencils and paper to the children, and take them through each step of drawing a rat, a cat, and a bat.

More Practice
Read target words in a text 

• Read the Is It a Cat, a Rat, or a Bat? target text together as a group. 
• Read the text again fading support.
• Have the children underline the words in the text that end in -at.

Write about the activity using target words

• Under the rat, cat, and bat write: I am a rat. I am a cat. I am a bat.
• Play a "change the word" game with the children, explaining that just as the bat, cat, and rat changed into each other, words can do the same.  
• Have children begin with the word bat, then change the initial letter to make a new word, and continue to make new words, as you write them on the board.
• Repeat the game, but this time, have children write the word on their own whiteboard or paper, change the initial letter, and read the word.