This engaging short story worksheet helps early readers practice fluency and comprehension while mastering the "-at" word family.

Let’s go step by step to solve this worksheet.

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First, we read the short story three times — each time coloring one leaf (but since we’re not actually coloring here, we’ll just focus on reading and understanding).

The story says:

> I see the cat. The cat is fat. The fat cat sat on the mat. The mat is flat. I see the rat. The rat sat on the cat.

We are told to find and highlight all “-at” family words. Let’s look for words that end in “-at”:

From the story:
- cat → ends with -at ✔
- fat → ends with -at ✔
- sat → ends with -at ✔
- mat → ends with -at ✔
- flat → ends with -at ✔
- rat → ends with -at ✔

So the “-at” family words are:
cat, fat, sat, mat, flat, rat

(You would highlight these in the text if you were doing it on paper.)

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Next part: “Cut and paste pictures in the right order.”

Since there are no actual pictures shown here, but based on the story, we can imagine what should happen in order:

1. First, you see the cat.
2. Then, the cat sits on the mat.
3. Then, you see the rat, and the rat sits on the cat.

So the correct sequence of events (if we had pictures) would be:
→ Picture of cat alone
→ Picture of cat sitting on mat
→ Picture of rat sitting on cat

But since we don’t have images to cut, we skip this part for now — or note that the student would arrange them in that order.

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Last part: Answer the two multiple-choice questions.

Question 1: Who is fat?
Options:
○ cat
○ rat
○ mat

From the story: “The cat is fat.” So the answer is cat.

✔ Correct choice: cat

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Question 2: Cat sat on the ...?
Options:
○ mat
○ rat

From the story: “The fat cat sat on the mat.” So the answer is mat.

✔ Correct choice: mat

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Final Answer:
Who is fat? → cat
Cat sat on the ...? → mat