-at Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will read and use -at family words to build phonics and fluency.

Vocabulary
cat, hat, bat, mat, rat, fat

Teaching Notes

• Blend onsets with -at.
• Read the story aloud and highlight -at words.
• Practice onset-rime segmentation with students.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
A cat in a hat sat on a mat. A rat saw the cat and sat too. The bat taps the hat, tap tap. The fat cat pats the mat. They all nap on the mat.

Word Family to Learn

, , , , ,

Word Play

at, at, at, at, at, at

Sentences to Fill In

A in a sat on a .
A saw the and sat too.
The taps the , tap tap.
The pats the .
They all nap on the .

Activities

• Act out or illustrate the story.
• Write two new sentences with -at words.

Games

• “Missing Letter”: fill in the hidden onsets in Word Play.
• “Speed Build”: say each full word out loud after filling in.

Reflection

• My favorite -at word today is:
• Now make your own sentence using some of the -at words you learned.