A Bat Named Pat: -at

Word Family Tales

by Betsy Franco-Feeney, Bari Weissman (Illustrator)

Who wouldn't want a bat named Pat? She's the best pet ever—had that is that! This "batty" tale of friendship will really make you giggle!

This rib-tickling read-aloud tale was created especially to build early phonics skills by teaching children to recognize "families" of words that share the same spelling pattern. This key reading strategy helps kids decode new words with ease—and become stronger readers, writers, and spellers! Also includes riddles, a cheer, and reading tips!

16 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

Reviews

[Rachel Hilton]

Pat, the bat, and the little girl in this story become best friends. This is a tale of the adventures they go on and how they become friends. The story includes words with 'at' at the end, and shows students the -at word family. Students are given a lot of -at words throughout the story, like bat, pat, sat, rat, cat, and hat. This is a word play story and allows students to hear all of the different words that have -at in them. I would use this story to teach word families and to show students when you take off the beginning sound of a word, but you keep the ending sound, they rhyme. I would model for them on an anchor chart throughout the story. I would allow students to raise their hands and tell me what words they heard in the story that belong to this specific word family. Overall, this book is great to use when teaching about word families and rhyming.

[Cornelius]

For pre-k or kindergarten children, this is book can be used to help children pronounce the ending sound of words. I would use this book in the classroom to help children pronounce words that ends in “at.” The children will enjoy reading the book and for a teacher, the book is educational by helping children pronounce ending sounds.

[Dolly]

This is a fun phonics primer about the "at" sound. It's a fun story about having a bat for a pet and the rhyming text is easy for beginning readers.