The Cat And The Hat Case Study

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The story choose to develop Alfonsos’s vocabulary will be “The cat and the hat” by Dr Seuss for first and second grader level. This story is very popular book story that will help a child like Alfonso’s vocabulary improvement since he has difficulty with words meaning and connecting the words. One of the learning activity strategy I would design to help him improve his vocabulary skill by the end of his first grade year, so he can learn more words meaning and connection will be by doing vocabulary words sentence base on the “The cat and the hat” story vocabulary words. I would choose 10 words from the story that will help also develop Alfonso’s think skill and also improve his writing skill using the new vocabulary words, after he done with

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