1. Play an alphabet video game
Your young students will enjoy practicing their ABC’s with this complimentary alphabet video game. To play, trainees get one card at a time, checked out the letter aloud, then put a colored counter on the coordinating letter, filling all the polka dots in the Cat’s hat.
Skills practiced: letter acknowledgment, letter-sound correspondence
Learn more: Tot Schooling
2. Create rhyming words
Rhyming needs trainees to listen carefully for noises within words. This assists them learn that words are comprised of different parts and teaches them about the patterns and structures that comprise our language.
Skills practiced: phonics, phonological awareness
Learn more: Seussville
3. Make word-family hats
Word households are a simple yet efficient technique for mentor reading and spelling. For this activity, trainees practice organizing both brief- and long-vowel word households into the red and white stripes of the Cat in the Hat’s stovepipe hat.
Skills practiced: phonics, rhyming words, word acknowledgment
Learn more: This Reading Mama
4. Go on a Cat in the Hat word search
Word searches are a simple method for trainees to practice and enhance their reading abilities. Skills such as scanning, decoding, and word acknowledgment are all essential elements of checking out fluency.
Skills practiced: vocabulary, fluency
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5. Play a sight word video game
Using card stock or index cards, make cards with rhyming words from The Cat in the Hat plus one smaller sized card with an image of a birthday cake. Place all of the cards facedown on a flat surface area. Hide the birthday cake under among the cards. To play, have a trainee turn over a card and check out the word. If they check out the word properly, it remains faceup. If they read it improperly, read it for them, and after that put it facedown once again. The video game ends when they discover the covert birthday cake and properly check out the card it is concealed under.
Skills practiced: letter and word acknowledgment, phonics, rhyming words
Learn more: There’s Just One Mommy
6. Write about things you can do
Kids enjoy the Cat in the Hat for all the outrageous things he can do! This activity triggers trainees to discuss all the important things they can do too. Starting with the sentence starter “I can …,” trainees will conceptualize all the incredible things they can.
Skills practiced: composing abilities, checking out understanding
Learn more: Seussville
7. Perform a Cat in the Hat readers theater
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Nothing makes a story come alive like a live efficiency! Check out these complimentary Cat in the Hat readers theater scripts, developed by an instructor specifically for trainees in early primary. Not just does readers theater offer trainees important practice with oral reading, it uses an amusing and appealing ways of enhancing fluency and improving understanding.
Skills practiced: fluency and understanding
Learn more: Kevin Sheehan
8. Learn about revers
There are many remarkable Dr. Seuss characters that kids can associate with! In this activity, trainees will will take a more detailed take a look at 2 favorites—the Cat in the Hat and Horton—and look for resemblances and distinctions in between them, and perhaps acknowledge some qualities in themselves.
Skills practiced: compare and contrast, making connections to texts and characters
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9. Go beyond the text
There are many methods to broaden your trainees’ reading understanding by diving deeper into the story The Cat in the Hat. For circumstances, inform the story from the fish’s viewpoint. Count the variety of syllables in each sentence and attempt to find out the pattern. Brainstorm concerns you would ask the Cat in the Hat if you fulfilled him, and more.
Skills practiced: checking out understanding, composing
Learn more: Teaching Ideas
10. Learn more with the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library
The stories and activities in the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library take on a myriad of remarkable subjects like the body, the environment, animals, the planetary system, and more! Not just do these texts make discovering enjoyable (because, you understand … the Cat in the Hat!), they’re fantastic for stimulating discussions and questions.
Learn more: Seussville
Loving these Cat in the Hat activities? Find lots of complimentary printables and class activities to teach reading, mathematics, SEL, and more with Dr. Seuss!
