Predictable books, sometimes called pattern books, are picture books that contain rhyme, repetitive words, songs, refrains, or phrases, questions or some other structure that makes them predictable
2. Predictable books, sometimes
called pattern books, are picture
books that contain rhyme,
repetitive words, songs, refrains,
or phrases, questions or some
other structure that makes them
predictable
3. eight types of predictable books.
1. Chain or Circular Story
2. Cumulative Story
3. Familiar Sequence
4. Pattern Stories
5. Question and Answer
6. Repetitive Phrase
7. Rhyme
8. . Songbooks
4. ?Chain or
Circular
Story
? The plot is
interlinked so
that the ending
leads back to the
beginning
Where the Wild Things
Are
5. Sample of chain story
If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Look out, Bird! Marilyn Janovitz
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna
Aardema
Why the Sun Was Late by Benjamin Elkins
6. ?CUMULATIVE
STORY
Each time a new event
occurs, all previous
person, places, things,
and events in the story
are repeated
? The Gingerbread Man
7. Sample of cumulative story
The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's by S. Neitzel
Benny's Pennies by Pat Brisson
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
"Buzz, Buzz, Buzz," Went Bumblebee by Colin West
Chicken Licken by Gavin Bishop
Have You Seen the Crocodile? by Colin West
Henny Penny by H.W. Zimmerman
8. Familiar Sequence
Organized by a
recognizable theme
(days of the week,
months of the year,
numbers, etc.).
? The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
9. Sample of familiar sequence
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak
Come Out and Play, Little Mouse by Robert Kraus
Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward
It Begins With an A by Stephanie Calmenson
Moo, Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood
Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews
11. sample
A Most Unusual Lunch by Robert Bender
Peter and the Talking Shoes by Kate Banks
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Seven Sillies by Joyce Dunbar
Spider, Spider by Kate Banks
Stop, Thief! by Robert Kalan
12. Question and
Answer
The same or
similar questions
are repeated
throughout the
story.
? Brown Bear, Brown
Bear, What Do You See?
13. sample
Black Crow, Black Crow by Ginger Foglesong Guy
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by
Bill Martin, Jr.
Is It Time? by Marilyn Janovitz
Where's My Share? by Valerie Greeley
Whose Footprints? by Molly Coxe
Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus
15. Sample of repetition of Phrase
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
The Baby Blue Cat Who Said No by Ainslie Pryor
A Beautiful Feast for a Big King Cat by John
Archambault and Bill Martin, Jr.
Big and Little by Ruth Krauss
The Big Block of Chocolate by Janet Slater Redhead
A Big Fish Story by Joanne and David Wylie
17. Sample repetition of Rhymes
Johnny Crow's Garden by Leslie Brooke
The Lady With the Alligator Purse by Nadine
Bernard Westcott
Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sara J. Hale
Miss Mabel's Table by Deborah Chandra
The New Baby Calf by Edith Newlin
Night House Bright House by M. Wellington
19. Sample songs
The Eensy-Weensy Spider by Mary Ann
Hoberman and Nadine Bernard Westcott
Yankee Doodle by Mary Ann Hoberman
One Wide River To Cross by Barbara
Emberley
Over In The Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats
20. Characteristics of Predictable Books
? Picture books with repeating illustrations
? Basic vocabulary
? Repetitive language
? Rhyming words
? Pattern of sentence structure
? No break in pattern (unless on last page)
21. ? Simple phrases
? Can expect what comes next
? Sing-along style
? Easy to make predictions
? Same character throughout
? Little to no dialogue between characters
22. Why Are Predictable Books Important?
? Children learn pre-reading skills.
? children participate in reading.
? children learn about rhyme and rhythm .
? children learn inflection in a natural way.
? children get additional speech practice
?Children experience success with reading.