Fat Hat

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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.").

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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.

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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
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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."
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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/