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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

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Here are some quick and fun ways to use this story to help
children build important alphabet recognition skills.

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

For Catie
a Cutie with a capital C

Ask children to find big C and small c at the top of the front cover. Review the C/c sound with
children. Can they find a word on the cover that begins with the letter C/c? Read the title
aloud, emphasizing the C/c sound as appropriate.
Flip the book over and read the story summary on the back cover. Ask children to point out
words they hear or see that begin with C/c. Explain that the story you are about to read
includes many more words that begin with the letter C/c. Can they help you find them?
Read the story aloud once for pleasure and enjoy together the whimsical illustrations. Then
reread the book, emphasizing the initial C/c sound in the appropriate words. Ask children to
listen closely for and identify all the words that start with C/c. Point out these words in the text,
and make a list of them.
Write each of the words from your list on an unlined index card. Read each word on the cards
aloud with children. On another reading of the story, children can match the words on the
index cards with the words in the story.

No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in


part or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,
or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.
For information regarding permission, write to
Scholastic Inc., 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.
Produced by Imagination Ink., based on a design by Kathy Massaro.
ISBN: 0-439-16526-1
Copyright 2001 by Scholastic Inc.
All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.

Pages 14-15 of the book depict a busy scene full of C/c words. Some of these words have
been introduced in the story, but a few are new. Ask children to find as many C/c words as
they can. Add any new words to your list. The C/c words depicted in the scene include: cats,
caps, canoe, cup, corn, carrot, cake, camel, camera, clouds. (Children may come up with
other C/c words on their own!)
Read aloud the cheer on page 16 several times, with lots of energy and enthusiasm. Invite
children to join you in reciting the cheer when they feel ready. Encourage them to find any
new C/c words in the cheer. Again, add these words to your list.
Dont let your exploration of the letter C/c end with the story! Display your list of words in a
place where children can easily see it. During the rest of the day or week, children can add
new C/c words that they encounter in other books, on signs, on food labels, and so on.

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

Clyde and Cleo are catscopycats!


I bet you cant do what I can do,
says Clyde.
I can too! says Cleo.
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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can do a cartwheel, says Clyde.


Can you?
I can too! says Cleo.
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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can ride a camel, says Cleo.


Can you?
I can too! says Clyde.
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I can bake a coconut cake,


says Clyde. Can you?

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can too! says Cleo.

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can build a castle, says Cleo.


Can you?

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can too! says Clyde.

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can grow carrots, corn, and cabbages,


says Clyde. Can you?
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I can too! says Cleo.

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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can carry a cup of cocoa on my head,


says Cleo. Can you?
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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

I can too! says Clyde.


Look out for the car! yells Cleo.
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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

Clyde crashes into Cleo.


The cups crash to the ground.
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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

Clyde looks at Cleo. Cleo looks at Clyde.


They are both covered in cocoa.
I can stop being a copycat,
says Clyde. Can you?
I can too, says Cleo.
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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

How many things can you find


that begin with the letter C?

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See page 19
19 for answers.

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AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

Cc Cheer
C is for cat, C is for cap
C is for carrot, crayon, and clap
C is for camel, cow, cup, and car
C is cookies in a cookie jar
Hooray for C, big and small
the coolest, craziest letter of all!

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n
i
d
g
a
T ips
Re

Here are some quick and fun ways to use this story to help
children build important alphabet recognition skills.
For Catie
a Cutie with a capital C

AlphaTales: Copycats Scholastic Teaching Resources

Ask children to find big C and small c at the top of the front cover. Review the C/c sound with
children. Can they find a word on the cover that begins with the letter C/c? Read the title
aloud, emphasizing the C/c sound as appropriate.

No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in


part or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,
or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.
For information regarding permission, write to
Scholastic Inc., 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.
Produced by Imagination Ink., based on a design by Kathy Massaro.
ISBN: 0-439-16526-1
Copyright 2001 by Scholastic Inc.

Flip the book over and read the story summary on the back cover. Ask children to point out
words they hear or see that begin with C/c. Explain that the story you are about to read
includes many more words that begin with the letter C/c. Can they help you find them?
Read the story aloud once for pleasure and enjoy together the whimsical illustrations. Then
reread the book, emphasizing the initial C/c sound in the appropriate words. Ask children to
listen closely for and identify all the words that start with C/c. Point out these words in the text,
and make a list of them.
Write each of the words from your list on an unlined index card. Read each word on the cards
aloud with children. On another reading of the story, children can match the words on the
index cards with the words in the story.
Pages 16-17 of the book depict a busy scene full of C/c words. Some of these words have
been introduced in the story, but a few are new. Ask children to find as many C/c words as
they can. Add any new words to your list. The C/c words depicted in the scene include: cats,
caps, canoe, cup, corn, carrot, cake, camel, camera, clouds. (Children may come up with
other C/c words on their own!)
Read aloud the cheer on page 18 several times, with lots of energy and enthusiasm. Invite
children to join you in reciting the cheer when they feel ready. Encourage them to find any
new C/c words in the cheer. Again, add these words to your list.
Dont let your exploration of the letter C/c end with the story! Display your list of words in a
place where children can easily see it. During the rest of the day or week, children can add
new C/c words that they encounter in other books, on signs, on food labels, and so on.

All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.

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