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Quick and Easy AT Word Family Hat Activity

My preschooler is starting to play around with spoken words more. We are focusing on learning letters sounds and blending sounds together to make words during our short car trips. This quick and easy AT word family hat activity takes the phonemic awareness game to a phonics activity using note cards and a hat.

This week the #PLAYfulPreschool team is learning with HATS! Using this theme as our inspiration, we put together this word family – learn to read activity for young children. It is best completed with children who are familiar with their letter sounds. Adaptations provided below the activity.

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Quick and Easy AT Word Family Hat Activity

Learning Objective: The child will blend beginning sounds with _at to make at family words.

Materials Needed for At Word Family Hat Activity:

  • Unruled Index Cards, 3 x 5, 
  • Scissor
  • Markers
  • Sun Hat

Directions for At Word Family Hat Activity:

1. Cut the cards in half. Write the letters h, m, c, b, sp, r, h, p, fl on one half card.

2. Write a line and the words at on a full card.

3. Place all the half cards with one letter in a hat.

4. Let your child draw a card out and say the letter sound.

5. Place the letter on the _at card.  Blend the sounds together h – at.

6. Say the word : HAT

7. Repeat steps 4-6.

For children learning their letter sounds, skip the word family card. Just draw the letter cards out of the hat and say the name.

Book Connections for Preschool Hat Theme

Books are always a great way to develop an expansive vocabulary, work on reading comprehension, and story re-telling skills. Here are some of our favorite picture books all about HATS! Encourage your child to look at the words in each book and find a word HAT in the text.

Have an advanced reader? Encourage them to keep a tally chart for the amount of times the word hat appears in the book.  Compare the word counts between 2 books!

Blue Hat, Green Hat

The Hat

The Cat in the Hat

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

Old Hat New Hat

Twelve Hats for Lena: A Book of Months

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the Mexican Hat Dance (Stories to Celebrate)

If You Have A Hat: A Silly Rhyming Picture Book for Kids

Miss Fannie’s Hat (Picture Puffins)

Tornado Slim and the Magic Cowboy Hat

Happy Hat Day: A Silly Rhyming Picture Book for Kids

I Want My Hat Back

Very Good Hats

This Is Not My Hat

We Found a Hat

Kindergarten Hat

Whose Hat is This?

The Magic Hat

A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and Love

Hat theme preschool week.

Hat Theme Preschool Activities from the #PLAYfulPreschool Team:

Upper and Lower Case Hat Match by Rainy Day Mum

Literacy Activities for Preschoolers: Beginning Sound Hats by Growing Book by Book

Quick and Easy AT Word Family Hat Activity by The Educators’ Spin On It

Fine-Motor Birthday Hat for Preschoolers by Life Over C’s

Preschool Hat Improv Game by Capri + 3

Guess The Hat? Sight Word and Colour Recognition by Learning 2 Walk

Hat Matching Printable Cards by Powerful Mothering

Play and Learn with a HAT theme preschool week. Letter matching hats, hat crafts, beginning sound hats and more!

You may also like these learning themed collections:

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Filed Under: Kids Activities, Reading Tagged With: Amanda, grade school, learn to read, Preschool, Word Family

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Comments

  1. Cerys Parker says

    March 18, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Simple things are the best and this would be so easy to set up. Thank you for the inspiration.

  2. Theresa A says

    March 18, 2015 at 9:00 am

    We are working on -at ending words. I love your game. We will try it out.

  3. Growing Book by Book says

    March 18, 2015 at 8:03 am

    I love how easy this is to do! And, I of course love the book choices!

  4. Natasha Johnson says

    March 18, 2015 at 7:09 am

    What a cool game to play.

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