Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
By Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle
"Predictable books make use of rhyme, repetition of words, phrases, sentences and refrains, and such patterns as cumulative structure, repeated scenes, familiar cultural sequences, interlocking structure and turn-around plots. These stories invite children to make predictions or guesses about words, phrases, sentences, events and characters that could come next in the story."
-Mary Jett Simpson
Read a book with repetitive words and phrases over and over to your child. Point to the pictures and add gestures to increase your child's understanding of the language. After being exposed to the book a number of times, your child can join in and help "read" the story by supplying the repetitive word, phrase or gesture through out the book.
Example: Pause for your child to verbalize "me" when you read the phrase "I see a red bird looking at ____".
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