Predictable Chart

Each week, we complete a predicable chart to hang in our room! The sentence pertains to our unit study or out letter of the week. The sentences are short and, of course, predictable!

Right now, we are spending a lot of time on letter knowledge so we are exploring 1 letter each week. For these charts, the sentence always reads..

"(letter of the week) is for ________________ "

ex: "Bb is for brain. (Ms. White)

This predictable chart is from when we had our family unit study. Each student counted the number of people in their home and we wrote the number into their sentence. 

Ex: "I have three. (Ms. White)"

There are a few things we do to make the predictable chart a knowledge packed lesson:

• Allow students to choose which color they would like have their sentence written in
• during our color study, we have the children spell the color they want to use!
• Ask higher order questions to increase sentence structure awareness 
• "Why is the 1st letter capitalized?"
• "What sound will your word start with?"
• "Is there a place in the classroom that can help you spell your word?"
• "What do we need at the end of every sentence?"
• Show students how to stretch out the sounds in their word and help them spell it correctly
• Add a period after the sentence is written
• Add the student's name in parentheses at the end of their sentence to show ownership 
• we have them read their name after reading their sentence ex: "by Ms. White" 
• When their sentence is completely written, we ask students if they would like to read it by themselves or if they would like some help from the Nemos
• if students ask for help, read the sentence together and then let them read it by themselves
• once they read if by themselves, we give each student a 'picture cheer'!