Perhaps partly because of this delay, these children may have a smaller base of general knowledge and cultural referents than hearing children. As opposed to the spoken words, printed words remain physically present long after initial use. This gives children a chance to return and explore the words at their leisure. Exploration enables children to pursue concepts that are not easily learned from casual conversation. Concomitantly, they increase their own general knowledge and cultural understanding.
Students love books where language and storyline are predictable.
Predictability may take the form of repetitive phrases or cumulative patterns. Such features as rhyme, repeated phrases, episode patterns, and catch phrases enable readers to prediction what will happen next in the text. Repetitive phrases and patterns foster pleasure in and of themselves. They also generate pleasure when children see their predictions born out as the text unfolds. As children grow older, predictable books provide an excellent choice for beginning readers.