retell literacy center activity - The Fat Cat

Reading activities for kindergarten don't have to be worksheets or games! We have active literacy centers in our classroom like the retell center. This is how I created a 'The Fat Cat' retell activity to go in our retell center as an option for my kindergarten students. It was just a matter of scanning and printing pictures from the book. My kinders get to choose the book(s) they want to retell while they are at this literacy center. They read, they act, they use lots of great vocabulary and are developing fantastic reading habits all while continuing to build their love of reading.

The Fat Cat Retell (Literacy Center Activity)

It's one of my favorite literacy centers and we usually introduce The Fat Cat whenever my mom comes to visit. It was a favorite story of mine as a child, so she loves to carry on the tradition of being the first one to read it to my class. She does an amazing job of reading with intonation, so I carry it on making the pattern in this story easy to recall, kind of like in the gingerbread man.

Here are the props I gathered rather inexpensively (and you can too) to bring the book alive once we knew it by heart. I simply scanned in pages from the book of each character. After I laminated the, I added popsicle sticks onto the back using book tape (clear mailing tape).

Go back to read the Retell Literacy Center Directions {in case you missed it}

You can make this kindergarten activity yourself! Here are the materials you'll need...

Materials:

• Scanned Pictures (Laminates)
• Tape
• Popsicle Sticks
• The Fat Cat by Jack Kent

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Don't know this book? Since it's not as well known, maybe you know one of these similar growing-pattern books... They would work great too for this center if you have them!

• Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
• The Jacket I Wear In the Snow

More Retell Literacy Center Book Activities for Kindergarten

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Fresh Fall Leaves
Big Pumpkin
Cinderella
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
The Little Red Hen
The Very Quiet Cricket
Red Riding Hood
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Hansel and Gretel
The Gingerbread Man
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Fat Cat
Cookie's Week
The Doorbell Rang
The Three Little Pigs
Swimmy
See All

Have you ever heard of this book? Do you have another favorite book that is a "growing" story?

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- Leslie

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