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Poem: Cats

From Between the Lions

Poem: Cats
1 minPre-KK1st2ndReading & Writing (ELA)
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Summary

This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated and rhyming poem about cats. The poem tells about places that cats sleep and the video shows cats snoozing in these various locations. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency and Phonological Awareness.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

"Poem: Cats" is all about listening for the sounds inside words — rhyming, blending, or breaking words into parts (focus: Cats).

  1. What sounds, rhymes, or word parts did you hear?
  2. How were the sounds put together or pulled apart?
  3. Can you make another word that plays with those same sounds?

Quick work-a-long

Practice: sound, rhyme, word part.

Try it: Pick a short word, say each sound slowly, then blend it back together — and think of one word that rhymes with it.

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