The Cat in the Hat. by Dr. Seuss. A a. B b. A a. Rich Vocabulary. Learning Ab Rhyming

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1 MINI-LESSON IN TION The t in the Ht y Dr. Seuss Rih Voulry tme dj. esy to hndle (not wild) LERNING Lerning Rhyming OUT Words I know it is wet nd the sun is not sunny. ut we n hve Lots of good fun tht is funny! I know some good gmes we ould ply, Sid the t. I know some new triks, Sid the t in the Ht. From The t in the Ht, pges 7 8 Let this dpper t give your lss lot of good fun tht is funny with word study gme tht shrpens reding skills from erly prereders to solid eginning reders. While some students will identify rhyming words euse they sound like, others will identify rhyming words euse they look like Our t in the Ht gme s well.the impt of the rhyming word onept for the kindergrten set is the reliztion tht eing le to red one word like t empowers them to red whole list of other words like ht, t, st, rt, nd mt just y hnging one letter.this hnge--letter rhyming word tehnique uilds onfidene nd helps young reders tkle words in plyful wy. 8 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Kindergrten

2 In the mini-lesson tht follows, kindergrtners lern few lphet triks from The t in the Ht.To prepre for the lesson, fill shoeox with mgneti letters from to Z, opy the note elow, nd tpe it to the lid. Plese look in this ox From Thing One nd Thing Two, You ll find fun gme Of lerning-to-red lues. Just twenty-six lphet letters to lern, ll of the words in the world, ny found in ook, re mde with these twenty-six letters Just look! Put these letters in order, with -T mkes T. Reple with H, Now the T is HT. I know it s hllenge, ut it n e funny, nd lerning to red Will mke your dys sunny. I m the t in the Ht, nd I m here to sy Reding is fun! Strt lerning tody. fter reding loud this lssi ook to your students, disply the shoeox nd let the lesson egin. Here's smple of how I get things rolling in my lssroom. Tr: Jordn: Jordn: my: Kelly: Wytt: I found this ox sitting on my desk when I me to shool tody. (I red loud the note.) It s from the t in the Ht. How did he snek into our lssroom? It s hrd to sy. Wht do you think is in the ox? gme to teh us how to red. Wht does the t in the Ht sy the trik is to reding words? Twenty-six letters. I know the letters. I think there re more thn twenty-six letters. Mye we should ount them. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Kindergrten 9

3 Mye there s something in the ox to help us with tht. my: I ll hek for you. Look, it s unh of letters. Let s put the letters on the ord. Gry, would you hoose letter from the g, plese? Gry: It s J. Gret! The sound for the letter J is... lss: J-J-J. Nie work. Luy, plese hoose nother letter. Luy: It s. The sound for the letter is... lss: --. (We ontinue identifying the letters in the ox nd their sounds efore pling them on the ord in srmled order.) Wytt: The ox is empty. Kelly: Did we get them ll? We should ount them. Good ide. (The lss ounts 26 letters.) Let s put the letters in order to mke sure we didn t miss ny. Sy the lphet slowly while I rrnge the letters in order from to Z. (The lss repets the lphet.) Now let s ount the letters gin. (The lss ounts 26 letters gin.) Tht mens there re twenty-six letters in the whole lphet. Words re mde with letters. Let s try the t in the Ht s gme. We ll spell few words nd see wht hppens. First, spell t. Kyle: I know how. --T spells t. (Kyle spells the word with the mgneti letters.) Gret! If we tke wy the, wht is left? lss: -T. Right, -T mkes T. Tyler: Tht s word. You re right. Tell me how t might e used in sentene. rin: I ws t my Grndm s house. Kevin: We re t shool. Nie work. Let s put the H with T. Now we hve... lss: HT. Right! Let s try this with other letters. Go to the eginning of the lphet nd put the with T. Luren: Tht would e -T. t! Right! So fr you ve red the words t, ht, nd t. I ll put the letter here with the nd the H sine they ll mke rel words with T. Let s try nother letter. D is next. D with T mkes... Mr: DT. I never herd of tht. Kevin: You just sid it! I never herd of DT. tully, tht is spelled T-H--T. How do you like tht? Mr: Not D--T? Words re funny. There re so mny of them, nd mny sound very similr. Reding lots of ooks nd listening to lots of stories is the est wy I know to 10 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Kindergrten

4 eome fmilir with lots of different words. Sine D--T is not word, I ll put the D k in the lphet line. Let s try nother letter with T. Leh: E would mke E-T. If E--T were prt of the sound-like word fmily of T it would e E-T, nd tht is not word. ut E--T tully is word. You use this word every time you et. lss: ET! Joni: Is tht how you spell et? Yes. We ll put the letter E off to the side sine it s speil letter with T. Time to put the next letter with T. Tr: Tht s F for F-T. Tyler: I see ft t in ht. Wow! You sure used lot of T words in tht sentene. We ll put F with, H, nd. Wht s next? Pul: J-T. Sometimes G mkes the J-J-J sound. ut other times G hs hrd G-G-G sound like in got. Ree: J-T nd G-T ren t relly words. Then we should put G with the D to show the letters tht don t mke words found in ooks. We lredy know H--T mkes word. I is vowel. Vowels mke two different sounds long nd short. I--T would either mke the word I-T (with long i sound), or I-T (with short i sound). Kyle: Tht doesn t mke sense. J is next. Luy: We tried tht lredy when we did G. Put J with the not-found-in-ook letters. Wytt: K mkes K-T! Luren: No, --T mkes t. Sine K nd oth mke the uh sound, K with T would e soundspelling for t. When you see t in ook, it s spelled --T. Let s mke some more -T words. (We ontinue for the rest of the lphet.) ON NOTHER DY fter shool tht dy, I hrt the -t lists shown on the next pge y writing the eginning letter in red nd t in lk.the next dy, the hildren nd I red our lists of words, whih is hung in prominent ple in our lssroom. I hllenge them to e on the lookout for other t words in ooks they red independently or her during red-loud.we egin nother list titled More t Words from ooks. Words with lends suh s ht, rt, drt, st, nd flt top this list. Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Kindergrten 11

5 Rel t words -t words not Non-rhyming ook-spelled found in ooks t words t pt dt qt et t rt gt ut ot t st it wt ft tt jt xt ht vt kt yt mt lt zt With the mgneti letters nd the note from the t in the Ht k in the shoeox nd the -t hrts hung nery, word study enter hs een reted. Students onstrut nd red the -t words independently using our lists s referene. fter everyone hs hd hne to prtie reding the -t words t the enter, opy the words onto index rds for students to prtie reding in isoltion. s individul students re le to red the words on the rds (with ssistne), they reeive dge tht reds: I n Red T Words ll y Myself! This dge is worn proudly y students who re hppy to prolim their new reding knowledge. MORE FUN WITH THE OOK Hve students design ht for the t in the Ht. Set up n rt enter where they n glue red stripes onto lrge white ht outline. To omplete the ht, sk students to dd few T fmily words to the ht using self-stik fom lphet letters. t in the Ht dge 12 Tehing With Fvorite Red-louds in Kindergrten