Between now and the winter break our class will be learning to read and write many list or pattern books. These are books that repeat a certain phase related to a specific theme. We will be using the lists we generated in October and learn how to turn these ideas into our own personal books.
First the teachers will model pattern books by reading several to the class. We will examine the picture on the front cover with the title covered to predict what each book will probably be about.
This will involve the skill of thinking about catagories and how groups are related. Next we will read the title to check our predictions. Then we will brainstorm what may be on the pages inside the book. Reading the book will further confirm our predictions. Baskets of other books written with a pattern will be read frequently privately, with partners, and with the teachers throughout the month of December. The most common of these books is the all time favorite, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
We will be relating our reading experiences with these patterns books to our work in the writing workshop lessons. We will begin our first books today around the assigned topic of school activities. Each student will design their front cover picture and create a title. Tomorrow we will begin to create the pages. The children will each decide what activities they want to include in the five pages of their personal booket. Related pictures will be draw, and sentences in the pattern each child chose will be written. Following this, everyday or two new books will be made around the topics each child selected.
We will be relating our reading experiences with these patterns books to our work in the writing workshop lessons. We will begin our first books today around the assigned topic of school activities. Each student will design their front cover picture and create a title. Tomorrow we will begin to create the pages. The children will each decide what activities they want to include in the five pages of their personal booket. Related pictures will be draw, and sentences in the pattern each child chose will be written. Following this, everyday or two new books will be made around the topics each child selected.
