Predictable Books for Beginning Readers

Students who are learning English, both as a primary and secondary language, benefit from predictable books like Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do You See? Children may predict what is coming and participate in “reading” the book by picture clues, rhyming pattern, and/or repetitive phrases. Below I have listed predictable books.

Each Peach, Pear, Plum--Ahlberg
Ten, Nine, Eight--Bang, M.
I Was Walking Down the Road—Barchas, S.
Things I Like--Browne, A.
My Barn—Brown, C.
Goodnight Moon --Brown, M. W.
Dear Zoo --Campbell, R.
Have You Seen My Cat?; The Very Busy Spider; Do You Want to be my Friend?--Carle, E.
How Many Bugs in a Box?--Carter, D.
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed; Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree --Christelow, E.
Ten Black Dots --Crews, D.
Lunch--Fleming, D.
The Chick and The Duckling; Across the Stream; Three Kittens—Ginsburg
Fox on the Box; Gum on the Drum; I Want a Pet; Jog Frog Jog--Gregorich
Rosie’s Walk; 1 Hunter; Titch; Goodnight Owl; Happy Birthday, Sam--Hutchins, A.
Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go --Langstaff, J.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Here Are My Hands—Martin
Train Leaves the Station--Merriam
Whose Shoe?—Miller
The Bug in the Jug--Patrick
Blue Bug Goes to School; Blue Bug’s Book of Colors—Poulet, V.
Down by the Bay; Shake My Sillies Out; The Wheels on the Bus; Five Little Ducks--Raffi
The Teeny Tiny Woman--Seuling, B.
Hop on Pop; Foot Book--Dr. Seuss
Lizard’s Song--Shannon
It Looked Like Spilt Milk--Shaw, C.
Hooray, for Snail--Stadler, J.
The Big Fat Worm—Van Laan, N.
I Went Walking--Williams, S.
Moo Moo, Brown Cow--Wood