Predictable Charts

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Predictable Charts

• Julie Rolf
• Bay Colony Elementary
• Dickinson ISD

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Predictable charts are a type of interactive
writing.

• Predictable Charts
• are multilevel
• build meaning
• help with the acquisition of
• concepts about print,
• phonemic awareness
• the speaking, reading, writing
  connection.

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Key Features of Interactive Writing

• Write for Authentic Purposes.
• Share the task of writing.
• Use conversation to support the process.
• Create a common text.
• Use the conventions of written language.
• Make letter sound connections.
• Connect reading and writing.
• Teach explicitly.
• Group children based on learning goals.
• (This list is from Interactive Writing by
  McCarrier, Fountas Pinnell)

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Research The teachers role is critical in
helping children learn accurately. If she works
alongside of a child letting him do all that he
can but supporting the activity when he reaches
some limit by sharing the task she is more likely
to uncover the cutting edges of his learning.
(Clay, 1991)
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Research Continued

• Our research team found that much can be
  accomplished in just a few minutes of interactive
  writing because the teacher draws childrens
  attention to powerful examples selected from a
  text in which they are heavily invested with
  meaning. (McCarrier, Fountas, Pinnell, 2000)

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Research Continued

• The high engagement present in interactive
  writing lessons and the lively pace it requires
  creates an ideal setting for helping children
  keep the meaning of a text in mind while focusing
  on the details of print. (McCarrier, Fountas,
  Pinnell, 2000)

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Predictable Charts

• Five Day Plan

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Monday Tuesday

• Sentence Dictation
• The teacher begins the dictation by giving the
  children a pattern sentence to follow.
• For our large classes, it is best if half of
  the class dictates their sentence on Monday and
  half of the class dictates their sentence on
  Tuesday.

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Wednesday

• Touch Read Sentences
• Each student will come up and touch read their
  sentence.
• By touching each word as they read their
  sentences, many children will learn to track
  print.

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Thursday

• Sentence Builders
• Write a few sentences in large print on
  sentence strips.
• Cut the words apart and put them into a plastic
  bag.
• The students are then asked to be sentence
  builders and put the sentence together.

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Friday

• Making the Class Book
• Cut all sentences apart and put into plastic
  bags.
• Model gluing the teacher sentence on a blank
  piece of manila paper.
• Model drawing an illustration that fits the
  text.
• Let the children loose and monitor.
• When they are finished, you are ready to bind
  your pages into a book!!!

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Extensions

• Very capable students will be able to run with
  the concept of making pattern books. Let them!
  My friends love making their own books from
  scratch and including those in the reading
  center too! I have a Light Bulb Lab in my room
  that is dedicated to this activity.

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Modifications

• Less capable students will greatly benefit from
  this technique. Creating extra predictable
  charts and books in a small group setting
  increases their confidence. Observe your less
  capable students, notice what they have trouble
  with and make that your focus when you work in a
  small group with these special friends!

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And..

• Laminate the pages, and make sure to put your
  books into the reading center!
• At the end of the year separate the pages for
  each student and have them make a cover. This is
  a wonderful keepsake and makes for good practice
  over the summer!

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References

• Making Alphabet Books, Hall, Dorothy P. 2002
  Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc.
  Greensboro, North Carolina
• Interactive Writing, McCarrier, Andrea
  Pinnell, Gay Su Fountas, Irene C. 2000
  Heinemann Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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