Blended Learning Lesson Plan

Lesson Title: Cat in the Hat Reading and Discussions

Objectives:
Students will be able to comprehend the story.
Students will be able to make connections to the story and apply lessons and moral of the story.
State Standards:
1.1 Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence.
4.1 Read grade-level texts with purpose and understanding.
5.1 Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to
demonstrate understanding of a text; use key details to make inferences
and draw conclusions in texts heard or read.

Context: I am teaching this particular lesson in the subject of reading and English to see how
well the students can read and follow along with a story and then apply what they read to other
assignments and situations. With the uses of tools and discussions, the students can use their
application skills and show how well they understood the story and practice their literacy skills.
Data: The students will be grouped based on their reading and comprehension skill level. The
data these groupings will be based on from previous gradings and tests of the skills of each
student recorded in Google spreadsheet. The data will be collected based on comprehension
questions on the story to see how well they were able to read and understand. It will also be done
in a Google spreadsheet that way I will be able to see each student’s progress.
Materials: Cat in the Hat book, iPads, App: The Cat in the Hat (Read and Learn with Dr.
Seuss), Doodle Buddy App, Youtube: The Cat in the Hat: Story Only (Living Books)

Detailed paragraphs from here on down.

Procedures: Total Time: About 90 minutes
 Introduction (20 minutes): I will start the lesson by talking about how we will read the

Cat in the Hat book aloud. I will then read the story to them with the YouTube video, playing

along in the background so they can follow along with the story and words much better. Then, I

will tell the class what we will be doing. I will explain each rotation to them and put them into

their groups. I will number each group and put it on the board, so they know their number and

who is in their group. Each rotation will be in order they will follow the group ahead of them in

movement of each rotation.

Teacher Directed (20 minutes): I will start off by asking questions about the story. We

will sit in a small group and I will ask comprehension questions on the story. These will include

those such as “Why was the goldfish angry?” “What was the weather like outside?” I will then

ask questions based on the moral and theme of the story. “What was this story about?” and

“What could the children have learned?” This will be a discussion that gets everyone involved.

We will go around the room at the end and discuss what they liked or did not like about the

book. This will test their understanding of the story and it will get them talking about their

thoughts. Then we will play a quick game where each student will pick a character from the story

out of a hat and they will talk about their character as if they were that character, what their role

was in the story, and any information and feelings they might have had. This allows the students

to show understanding and be creative.

Collaborative (20 minutes): In this activity, the students in their groups will come up

with a picture that represents their own thoughts on the story or what the story’s main idea is.

They will work together and discuss their thoughts and use creativity while understanding the
story. They will be able to save their picture to later share with the class. They will use the iPads

to create pictures on the Doodle Buddy app. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodle-buddy-

paint-draw-app/id313232441?mt=8) This will allow the students to be creative while showing

they understood and learned from the story.

Independent Digital (20 minutes): For this rotation, each student will have their own

iPad. They will use the Cat in the Hat, Read and learn with Dr. Seuss app.

(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-cat-in-the-hat/id1004090290?mt=8) This is an interactive

app that allows children to play along with the story and learn. It allows them to practice to read

along, practice, rhyming, spelling, phonics, and comprehension. They will be doing this alone,

not with others to allow time to focus on their own learning and capabilities. They will be doing

this at their own desks until the time is up and it is time to rotate.

Closure (10 minutes): Once each group has done a full rotation, everyone will go back to

their seats. I will then call on each group to share with the class what they did on the doodle

buddy app. They will explain their picture and why they came up with and drew what they did. I

will then close this lesson by asking what the class what they liked best about doing the different

rotations.

Rationale:
(Multimedia 1= Doodle Buddy App): I chose this piece of multimedia because is allows
the students to be creative. It has different colors and stickers they can use to create their
pictures. It also lets them use technology rather than pieces of paper and crayons. This
teaches them technology skills. It supports student learning and learning objectives
because it lets them think and apply what they learned and read in the story and then
create any picture they want. This multimedia choice differentiate instruction for all
learners because it is interactive, the design is well done and easy to navigate, the goal is
easy to understand, and it is reusable, meaning they can edit and save, or erase their
pictures.

(Multimedia 2=Cat in the Hat: App.): I chose this piece of multimedia because it is
interactive and allows the students learn at their own pace. They can read along with the
story, explore new vocabulary words, practice phonics, spelling, rhyming, and reading
comprehension with its activities on the app. It supports each one of the standards and
objectives for this lesson. It has high quality based on its ratings on the app store. This
multimedia choice differentiate instruction for all learners because it is interactive, the
design is well done and has structure, it provides feedback to the students, the activities
allow the students to be motivated with its fun and game aspect.