Preparing To Teach A Lesson The Cat In The Hat Teaching Tips Pbs

Kindergarten teacher allison frometa demonstrates how she prepares for teaching a lesson using online educational games on an interactive whiteboard. using this example game from the cat in the hat, allison discusses why previewing the game, reviewing the educational goals and key vocabulary, determining children's partners in advance, and establishing a sequence for the lesson all play a role. The teaching tips provide step by step lessons for using educational media to enhance standards based teaching and learning. each teaching tips module offers 20 minute lesson plans for three to five games and suggests ways to use the games in teacher led, whole class activities, and for independent learning. each module includes the following.

3. make word family hats. word families are an easy yet effective strategy for teaching reading and spelling. for this activity, students practice grouping both short and long vowel word families into the red and white stripes of the cat in the hat’s top hat. skills practiced: phonics, rhyming words, word recognition. Here are a few discussion topics: discuss rainy day activities and create a rainy day bulletin board. cut raindrops out of blue paper and have the students write down some rainy day activities on the raindrops to post on the bulletin board. consider using the cat in the hat to introduce your social studies unit about safety or stranger awareness. Kindergarten teacher allison frometa models all the steps involved in teaching a lesson using an online game from the cat in the hat on an interactive whiteboard to teach math skills and vocabulary. she prepares the lesson, builds students' background knowledge in key math skills and vocabulary, shows them how to play the game, provides guidance as they play, and wraps up the lesson to. In the mini lesson that follows,kindergartners learn a few alphabet tricks from the cat in the hat.to prepare for the lesson,fill a shoebox with magnetic letters from a to z,copy the note below,and tape it to the lid. please look in this box from thing one and thing two, you’ll find a fun game of learning to read clues.