Fat Hat

Objective
Recognize words that rhyme with hat (e.g., "Do fat and hat rhyme?") and produce rhyme words (e.g., "Think of a word that rhymes with hat.").
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- hat
- fat
- mat
- cat
- rat
- bat
- flat
Materials:
- Hat (beanie or paper hat*)
- Objects or picture cards*
- Bag
*Items included below
State and Model the Objective
The children will change a flat hat into a fat hat and recognize and produce words that rhyme with hat, such as pat, chat, gnat, and flat.
Literacy Activities
Make the hat fat
- Assemble the paper hat (see below) by cutting out the pictures and stapling the sides and bottom together to make a pocket, or use a real beanie.
- Gather some objects that rhyme with hat and some that don't, or use the included picture cards (see below).
- Have children take turns reaching into a bag and choosing an object or picture card.
- When the child pulls the object or card out of the bag, ask if that object or picture rhymes with hat.
- If it rhymes with the word hat, have the children say, "Yes! Put that ___ in the flat hat!" and let the child put the object or picture card in the hat.
- If it doesn't rhyme with the word hat, have children say, "No! That ___ can't go in the flat hat!" and let the child put it to the side.
- Note: You may want to crumple or bend the picture cards so they will make the hat fat.
- As the hat is filled, comment on how the hat is getting fat and is no longer flat.
- Help the children think of words from the activity that rhyme with hat, such as flat, fat, and that.
More Practice
Produce words that rhyme with hat
- Remind the children of the words they played with (e.g., hat, flat, fat, that).
- Ask each child to think of a word that rhymes with hat (support as needed).
Recognize words that do and do not rhyme using pictures
- Lay out two pictures of words that rhyme with hat (e.g., rat, bat) and one picture that does not rhyme with hat (e.g., bell).
- Help the children identify the picture that does not rhyme and remove it.
- Repeat with other sets of pictures, varying the order:
- mat, cat, sled
- bat, bed, mat
- hat, cat, bell
- bed, rat, mat
SEEL At Home
Objective
Recognize and produce words that rhyme with hat.
Materials
- Objects that rhyme with hat or picture cards (see below)
- Hat (beanie or paper hat)
Activity: Fat Hat
- Assemble the paper hat (see below) by cutting out the pictures and stapling the bottom and sides together to make a pocket, or use a real beanie.
- With your child, look for items around the house that rhyme with hat or use picture cards (see below).
- Show your child the hat and talk about how it is a flat hat, then invite your child to help turn the flat hat into a fat hat by filling it with things that rhyme with hat.
- Take turns choosing an item or picture card, identifying it and putting it into the flat hat as you or your child say, "A ___(cat) at in the flat hat!" (You may want to crumple or bend the picture cards so they will make the hat fat.)
- Remind your child that you made the flat hat into a fat hat by filling it with things that rhyme with hat: rat, mat, cat, bat, hat, flat.
- Ask your child if other things could go in the fat hat by saying, "Could you put a ___ in the fat hat" and filling in the blank with words that rhyme or don't rhyme with hat (e.g., gnat, pat, vat, ice cream, shoe).
- If the word you say rhymes with hat, have your child say, "Yes! ___ rhymes with hat!"
- If the word you say does not rhyme with hat, have your child say, "No, ___ can't be in the fat hat."
Standards
SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.

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Fat Hat