Combining lea with patterned or predictable stories
The Patterned Language Approach combines three proposals: predictable stories, structured language experience stories, and patterned books. This strategy centers around the notion that patterned books, if used appropriately, are a most effective way for beginning reading.
Sequence of lessons:
The teacher reads the book and then reads it again, inviting the children to read along when they are able to predict what is coming. (If dictated stories are used, the preceding activity is discussion and generation of a story by the students.)
The story is read from the book together, without picture clues or with pictures covered.
The story is read from a chart. Sentence strips containing lines from the story are provided, and the students match the lines by placing the strip under the line.
The group reads the story from the chart and are given word cards to match words on the chart.
The group reads the story from the chart. The teacher places word cards in a random order and the students are tasked to locate the words in the story and to place them in the order in which they occurred in the story. This procedure reoccurs for each section of the story.