my cat sits on my lap

My Cat Sits On My Lap

My Cat Sits On My Lap
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Target text

Objective

Read short vowel words in a text.

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Lesson Plan

Target Words:

  • Cat
  • Mat
  • Sit
  • Nap
  • Lap
  • Run
  • Hop

Materials:

  • Mat or sheet of paper
  • Cat picture* or toy cat
  • Word cards*
  • My Cat Sits and Naps on My Lap target text*

*Items Included below.

State and Model the Objective

Tell the children that they will play with a pretend cat and read and write words with short vowel sounds, such as cat, sit, and run

Literacy Activities

Read and enact texts together

  • Engage the children in reading My Cat Sits and Naps on my Lap target text (see below). 
  • Have the children act out the text, taking turns moving a cat from a mat to their lap. 

Write from dictation

  • Give the children paper mats to write on.
  • Have the children write words from the lesson on their mats (e.g., cat, mat, sit, nap, lap). 

Sort words with same rime ending

  • Have the children sort word cards (see below) into categories according to vowels.

 

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SEEL Target Texts

My Cat Sits and Naps on my Lap

I have a cat.
My cat has a mat.  
She can sit on her mat.
But she likes to sit on my lap.  
 
My cat has a mat.
She can nap on her mat.
But she likes to nap on my lap.
 
When I sit, my cat gets off her mat. 
She runs to hop on my lap.
I let her nap on my lap.
I pet my cat in my lap.
 
Am I a mat for a cat?
I am a mat for a cat to take a nap!


 

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Standards

SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/