My Cat 6-pack Author: Beth Braddock ISBN: 9780478123401 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: A, B Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Phonemic awareness, Using texts as models for own writing Theme/Topic: Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

A cat rests in different places around the house.

Building Basic Skills

• High-frequency words – My, He, is, up, on, the, me
• Content words – Cat, table, chair, TV, stair, car, tree, fence
• Repeated phrase – He is up on the
• Phonics and phonemic awareness – T (TV), t (the, table, tree); rime -e (me, He)
• Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation point
• Special Feature – Rhyming text

Skills and Strategies

My Cat can be used to introduce and reinforce:

• sharing own experiences related to the content of the story
• hearing the individual sounds in words
• innovating on the story to create own versions of stories, plays, and songs
• creating artwork or a piece of writing related to the text

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 93, cut and ready for use
• copies of BLM, markers, pencil
• blank word cards (5 per child), markers, scissors
• an outline of a room drawn on a large piece of paper

For more information please see our Lesson Plan