Tutoring Lesson Plan: Card Sort and Story Map with the Cat in the Hat

Title: Card Sort & Story Map for The Cat in the Hat

Materials:

1. Pencils & Paper
2. The Cat in The Hat by Dr. Seuss
3. 2 Story maps
4. Card Sort Materials
5. Blank Index Cards
6. Small Rattle

Goals:

1. To exercise the student's phonological awareness skills.
2. To exercise the student's ability to isolate story elements in a book.
3. To further develop the student's comprehension skills.
4. To improve the student's retellings of stories read.

Objectives:

1. After viewing several cards with words printed on them, the student will correctly sort the words into two columns based on the phonogram patterns that they possess, and then the student will choose one of the phonogram pattern columns to examine further.
2. After choosing the phonogram pattern to examine further, the student will listen to the book The Cat in The Hat read aloud by the tutor, and then the student will shake a rattle to indicate when a word following the phonogram pattern chosen is read aloud by the tutor.
3. After listening to The Cat and The Hat read aloud, the student and tutor will complete a story map, outlining the key story elements found in the book read.

Procedures & Schedule: