Students work in pairs. A partner, or the rest of the class in a whole-group activity, will replicate the pattern of movements. Students will then use action words to describe the pattern as they act it out. Students look at the words as they are acting out and saying the pattern. Later, students might try to remember the action pattern by looking at the words or illustrate the word pattern with appropriate action pictures.
Students listen to a predictable story and identify word patterns when they occur.
Ask students to predict what will come next in the story based on the word patterns they have identified. Students rewrite or dictate a variation of a predictable story by using different word patterns. Students are encouraged to create an original story or poem using word patterns. Students work in pairs. The other partner copies the quilt block and describes the patterns found in it.