Fat Cat on a Mat

Developing literacy:

Fiction year 1, context:

 

Whilst year 1 children may not be able to read these texts independently, they will be able to take part in shared reading and understand what is being read. After a text has been introduced many children may attempt subsequently to read it independently.

 

Fat Cat on a Mat has some of the statements suggested in the criteria for choice texts, some of them:

 

- Makes demands on young readers’ developing phonological knowledge, sight vocabulary and decoding skills.

- Presents features of language and techniques that are used for effect, like repetition and rhyme.

- Includes word, ideas and pictures which help children to begin to understand character and events, and how authors describe them.

- Engages de readers’ interest and relates to imagined and familiar experiences.

Reading and writing targets to read a book for children are very important for teachers to clarify the targets and can prepare a good understanding of the lecture which permits children achieve the pointed goals.

 

 

Targets are relevant in terms of:

 ·         Children’s interaction; forcing students to understand the lecture by previous knowledge questions and a share and guided lecture.

·         Teaching sequence; the leader of reading is the teacher, students are dependents to the teacher and we have to try to create and follow a sequence of reading, be able to sequence the main parts of the story.

 

 

·         Topics connected with the story; topics connected with Fat Cat on a Mat:

- Myself: emotions and how these can be expressed

- Our homes and families: safety in the home

- People who help us: the people in their environment who play an important role helping us and others

- Seasons

- Animals

- Traditional stories and fairytales