Fat cat on a mat

Getting literacy targets

This magnific story for first level of primary can help us to achieve literacy targets related to reading and writing. One of them is dentify the sounds of thymes. Here you can see a part of an activity in which the teacher say the sentence and children locate the rhyming words. In anyway, you can do it without using high technology. 

Using word walls

Besides, it's very useful to have a story word wall in the classroom with content and also high frequency words. In this way you are helping your students to review their language and revisit the story. Here you can see an example which belongs to the end of the story. But you can take more advantage of this choosing rhyming words and also putting them in different prompcards. So they will be able to manipulate and play with them. 

Classifying syllables 

Finally, as teacher you should know the types of syllables in the words appeared in the stories you read with your pupils. Something is clear: the more you know the different words, the more easily you will teach them. Here you have a nice table with most of the words used in Fat cat on a mat. As you can see, CVC words are the most common. 

 Representing scenes

Another form to enjoy the story is to let your students make groups and choose one scene of the book. They have to represent it by acting as statues. Then, you have to encourage the rest of the children to describe what is happening in that specific moment.