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These post-reading activities for The Cat in the Hat allow students to share their understanding of the characters, plots, and settings of the book. They have opportunities to write, draw, and perform based on what they've learned.
Dive into this classic children's story, with engaging activities and lessons that will help students analyze the sticky situation created by the Cat in the Hat. The Cat in the Hat: An Instructional Guide for Literature will enhance students' exploration and comprehension of this fun literary piece. With rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities, young learners analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more! Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!
These assessment questions for The Cat in the Hat are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.
These quick activities help students enjoy the whimsical literature of Dr. Seuss. For this story, students focus on the theme of responsibility. Before-, during-, and after-reading activities are provided for a comprehensive study of the story.
These post-reading activities for The Fire Cat allow students to share their understanding of the characters, plots, and settings of the book. They have opportunities to write, draw, and perform based on what they've learned.
These vocabulary activities for The Cat in the Hat incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.
The fifth edition of this comprehensive resource helps future and practicing teachers recognize and assess literacy problems, while providing practical, effective intervention strategies to help every student succeed. DeVries thoroughly explores the major components of literacy, offering an overview of pertinent research, suggested methods and tools for diagnosis and assessment, intervention strategies and activities, and technology applications to increase students' skills. Updated to reflect the needs of teachers in increasingly diverse classrooms, the fifth edition addresses scaffolding for English language learners, and offers appropriate instructional strategies and tailored teaching ideas to help both teachers and their students. Several valuable appendices include assessment tools, instructions and visuals for creating and implementing the book's more than 150 instructional strategies and activities, and other resources. New to the Fifth Edition: Up-to-date and in line with ILA, CCSS, and most state and district literacy standards, this edition also addresses the important shifts and evolution of these standards. New chapter on Language Development, Speaking, and Listening covers early literacy, assessment, and interventions. New intervention strategies and activities are featured in all chapters and highlight a stronger technology component. Updated Companion Website with additional tools, resources, and examples of teachers using assessment strategies.
Enter a Wubbulous World of fun with each of these exciting new coloring and activity books. Every book contains kids' favorite Seussian characters and a host of new faces. Chock-full of puzzles, mazes, and lots of activities! Here are 96 pages of mazes, dot-to-dots, picture puzzles, and match-'ems, plus fabulous activities to make puppets, refrigerator magnets", stained glass", lampshade decorations, and more -- starring the Cat in the Hat, Horton, Thidwick, and many more!
This exciting first-of-its-kind book helps after-school staff members support literacy development while staying faithful to the unique mission of being something other than "more school." The authors explain the role of after-school programs in literacy development and define aspects of literacy development. The book contains 72 fun and engaging activities for all levels of school-age readers.
