PREDICTABLE
BOOKS
Rhyming Predictable Stories
- Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children's Books) - this is also an example of a repetitive, predictable story)
- Sun is Falling, Night is Calling, by Laura Leuck (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- The Zoo at Night, by Martha Robinson (McElderry Books)
Repetition, or Repeating Predictable Stories
- Again!, by John Prater (Barron's)
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See, by Bill Martin, Jr. (H. Holt)
- The Very Hungry Catepllar, by Eric Carle (Penguin Group) - also a sequencing story
Sequencing Predictable Stories
This style incorporate familiar sequences, such as counting, days of the week, etc.
- Monday is Day One, by Arthur A. Levine (Scholastic Press) - this is also a rhyming story
- Ten Apples Up On Top, by Dr. Seuss writing as Theo LeSieg (Random House Children's Books)
- Dinnertime, by Sue Willaims (Harcourt) - this is also a rhyming story
Illustrations create Predictable Stories
This style incorporates the use of illustrations to increase predictability
- Down By the Bay, by Raffi (Random House Children's Books) - also familiar song, rhyming and repetition story
- Have You Seen My Duckling?, by Nancy Tafuri (Greenwillow Books)
Cumulative Pattern Predictable Stories
- One-Dog Canoe, by Mary Casanova (Melanie Kroupa Books)
- Good Night, Gorilla, by P. Rathman (Scholastic)
- There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly, by Simms Taback (Viking) This is also an example of a repetitive and rhyming story)
Familiar
Song as Predictable Stories
- The Wheels on the Bus, by Jane Cabrera (Holiday House)
- Little White Duck, by Walt Whippo (Little, Brown)
- There's a Hole in the Bucket, by Nadine Bernard Westcott (Harper Collins)
Circular and Chain stories
(This
style continually leads back to the very
beginning!)
- It Wasn't My Fault, by Helen Lester (Houghton Mifflin)
- How Kind, by Mary Murphy (Candlewick Press)
- Beautiful Bananas, by Elizabeth Laird (Peachtree)
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