About Leslie Staven

Through the work within the class of Literature and Literacy for Children, I have expanded my knowledge of some fine children's literature, teaching methods and developed a deeper passion for children's literature. Through this blog, I hope that others will learn about teaching strategies, specific works of literature they with which they were unfamiliar and feel the spark which they can carry to ignite the interest of reading in a child.

Teaching Strategy - PREDICTABLE BOOKS



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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