Is It a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat?

Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -at to make words such as rat, bat, cat, and pat.
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- rat
- cat
- bat
- fat
Materials:
- Whiteboard and marker
- Drawing instructions
- Is It a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat? target text
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.
SEEL Target Texts
Is it a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat?
SEEL At Home
Objective
Blend a beginning consonant or consonant blend with -at to make words such as rat, bat, cat, and pat.
Materials
- Is It a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat? target text
- Drawing instructions
Activity: Is It a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat?
- Ask your child if he or she remembers how to draw a rat, a cat, and a bat.
- Read Is it a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat? target text to your child, then follow the drawing instructions to draw a rat, bat, and cat.
- Help your child draw the rat, cat, and bat.
- Assist your child in writing the appropriate phrase underneath each picture: I am a rat. I am a cat. I am a bat. (Provide support where needed.)
Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D: Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.C: Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

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Is It a Rat, a Cat, or a Bat?