Adapt a Pattern Story
Grades: PK-1
Adapt a Pattern Story
Picture books that include patterns build an emerging reader's confidence as they "know" what is coming next before they even read the words.
Read your favorite pattern story, such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Ask students if they can identify the pattern used in the story and then create your own Wixie template using this pattern.
Wixie includes a range of story adaptations you can assign to students right away. For example:
- It Looked Like Spilt Milk - Charles G. Shaw
- Mary Wore Her Red Dress - Merle Peek
- Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
- In the Tall, Tall Grass - Denise Fleming
- Pet Show - Ezra Jack Keats
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Numeroff
Have students type text to complete the pattern sentence you have provided. Then, use the paint tools to add a picture that supports the words they have chosen. Have students practice fluency by recording an oral version of the sentence.
Print each student's page and bind them together to create a printed version you can keep in your classroom library.
If students included voice recording on their page, collect their work together using the Project Wizard. Share the URL to project so viewers can both read and listen to the story.
Standards
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.3
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.6
Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.D
Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.