Predictable Chart Day 5 Humpty Dumpty

When students enter, the predictable chart pages are ready to go. Their pages are at their seats.
At the beginning on the year, the students have a matching sentence printed on the paper, but this sentence is gone by October for most students. (This sentence is not the Humpty Dumpty sentence by the way.)

Teacher models [...]

Predictable Chart Day 4 Humpty Dumpty

Cut Up Sentences – Whole Group and Small Group

1. Write 2-4 sentences from the chart on sentence strips.
2. Show one sentence strip to the students.
3. Have the child who said the sentence come to the front of the room and read his/her sentence to the class. The child points to the words as (s)he reads [...]

Predictable Chart Day 3 Humpty Dumpty

Procedure
Students sit in a circle. All of the students have a copy of their own sentence.

Modeling
The teacher reads her own sentence first to a beanie baby. The teacher models pointing to the word as the teacher says the word.

Child reading with teacher support as needed
Each child holds a beanie baby in their lap [...]

Predictable Chart Day 1 Building Prior Knowledge Humpty Dumpty

Read Humpty Dumpty every day before the Predictable Chart.

To build background knowledge for the predictable chart, Humpty Dumpty, the teacher has a sentence strip that says, “He can sit on ______.” The teacher also has lots of pictures of items that Humpty might sit on or might NOT sit on. The children are sorting [...]

Predictable Chart Day 1 Humpty Dumpty

The teacher asked the students to answer the question, “What can Humpty sit on?” The students answer in a complete sentence, “He can sit on … a/the … .” The child says the sentence. This reinforces the concept that their talk is written down. Students rehearse in a complete sentence. If a child gives a [...]

Predictable Chart Day 2 Humpty Dumpty

Students and teacher read several of the predictable chart sentences from yesterday. Then the rest of the students get a turn. Remember that the students say the complete sentence. The students are pointing to their own sentence and reading it.