Pages or charts that contain such text offer excellent opportunities to draw attention to the differences and similarities between letters and words. All of these types are represented in the Suggestions for Predictable Books. Those listed represent but a few of the wealth of predictable books now available.
Predictable books have many other uses as well.
Blank sentence strips, word cards, scissors, and masking tape Chart paper and markers Pocket chart. Procedures Read the book you have selected to the children, inviting them to join in with you if they think they know what the book is going to say next. Children often do this spontaneously without always being able to talk about the pattern they have identified. For example, if the book makes use of rhyme, stop before the rhyming word and wait for the children to supply it. In this way, you are encouraging students' use of syntactic knowledge.