Can the small cat catch the rat? Find out in a short passage designed for first graders, complete with four comprehension questions that address details from the text.

Concepts

cats, reading comprehension, -at words, prepositional phrases

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Add to a homework packet when discussion prepositional phrases or -at words
• Have learners write another story about an animal on, in, or inside of something

Classroom Considerations

• The story describes a white cat on a box, and the picture shows an orange cat on the ground; the discrepancy might confuse some learners, especially because they need to answer questions about the description
• Doesn't include an answer key
• You may need to explain that cat and kitty are referring to the same animal

Pros

• Passage and questions are on one page, which makes it easy to copy and hand out

Cons

• Does not provide enough space for complete sentences
• Uses pronouns interchangeably (it and she)

Common Core

RL.1.1