State and Model the Objective
The children will hear a story about a bad kitty named Tad and listen for words that rhyme with bad, such as pad, lad, dad, glad, sad, and mad.

Literacy Activities
Bad Kitty Tad

• Read the book Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel to the children and have them listen for words that rhyme with bad (optional).
• Have the children practice making sad, mad, and glad faces.
• Read the Bad Kitty Tad target text (see below) to the children, having the children make sad, mad, or glad faces at the appropriate times.
• Read the text to the children again, asking them to raise their hand when they hear a word that rhymes with bad (Brad, Tad, bad, dad, mad, sad, glad).

More Practice
How did they feel? 

• Ask the children several questions about how different characters felt at specific times in the story (e.g., "How did Brad's dad feel when Tad was bad?" "How did Brad feel when his dad got mad at Tad?"). 
• Ask the children to listen to the target text again and clap each time they hear a word that rhymes with bad.
• Have the children turn to the child next to them and make the appropriate face at each other as you say the feelings sad, mad, and glad. 

Produce words that rhyme with bad 

• Remind the children of the words they played with (e.g., bad, sad, mad, glad, dad). 
• Tell them you can think of other words that rhyme with bad (e.g., pad, had, lad). 
• Give each child a turn to think of a word that rhymes with bad (support as needed). 

Recognize words that rhyme with bad 

• Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g., bug, hug).
• Ask the children to put their thumbs up if the words rhyme and thumbs down if the words do not rhyme.
• Repeat the activity with other sets of words (e.g., snug, rug; plug, fan; tug, mug; chug, cat; dug, jug).