Predictable Books: Another Way to Teach Reading to Learning Disabled Children

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Adams P. (1974). This old man. New York: Grossett & Dunlap.

Alain . (1974). One, two, three going to sea. New York: Scholastic.

Aliki . (1974). Go tell Aunt Rhody. New York. Macmillan.

Aliki . (1968). Hush little baby. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Allenberg J. , & Allenberg A. (1978). Each peach, pear, plum. New York: Viking Press.

Appleby E. (1984). The three billy goats gruff. New York: Scholastic.

Asch F. (1978). Turtle tale. New York: Dial Press.

Bang M. (1983). Ten, nine, eight. New York: Morrow.

Baum A. & Baum J. (1962). One bright Monday morning. New York: Random House.

Becker J. (1973). Seven little rabbits. New York: Scholastic.

Bonne R. , & Mills A. (1961). I know an old lady. New York: Rand McNally.

Brandenberg F. (1970). I once knew a man. New York: Macmillan.

Brown M. (1961). Four fur feet. New York: William R. Scott.

Brown M. (1947). Goodnight moon. New York: Harper & Row.

Brown M. (1956). Home for a bunny. Racine WI: Golden Press.

Brown M. (1952). Where have you been? New York: Scholastic.

Carle E. (1969). The very hungry caterpillar. Cleveland: Collins World.

Charlip R. (1964). Fortunately. New York: Parents' Magazine Press.

Charlip R. (1969). What good luck! What bad luck. New York: Scholastic.

Cook, (1976). The little fish that got away. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley.

deRegniers B. (1970). Catch a little fox. New York: Seabury Press.

deRegniers B. (1972). May I bring a friend? New York: Antheneum.

Eastman P. (1960). Are you my mother? New York: William Collins & Sons.

Emberly E. (1967). Drummer hoff. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Emberly E. (1974). Klippity klop. Boston: Little, Brown.

Ets M. (1955). Play with me. New York: Viking.

Flack M. (1932). Ask Mr. Bear. New York: Macmillan.

Freschet B. (1973). The ants go marching. New York: C. Scribner's.

Galdone P. (1968). Henny Penny. New York: Scholastic.

Galdone P. (1973). The little red hen. New York: Scholastic.

Galdone P. (1972). The three bears. New York: Scholastic.

Galdone P. (1970). The three little pigs. New York: Seabury Press.

Gelman R. (1976). Why can't I fly? New York: Scholastic.

Hutchins P. (1972). Good-night owl. New York: Macmillan.

Hutchins P. (1968). Rosie's walk. New York: Macmillan.

Hutchins P. (1971). Titch. New York: Collier Books.

Keats E. (1965). John Henry. New York: Pantheon.

Keats E. (1971). Over in the meadow. New York: Scholastic.

Kent J. (1971). The fat cat. New York: Scholastic.

Langstaff J. (1955). Frog went a-courtin'. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Langstaff J. (1969). Hi! Ho! The rattlin' bog and other folk songs for group singing. Jacques R. III . New York: Harcourt.

Langstaff J. (1974). Oh, a-hunting we will go. New York: Atheneum.

Langstaff J. (1963). Ol' Dan Tucker. New York: Harcourt.

Langstaff J. (1957). Over in the meadow. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Littledale T. (1967). The magic fish. New York: Scholastic.

Littledale F. (1978). The snow child. New York: Scholastic.

Lomax J. , & Alan E. (1938). Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads. New York: Macmillan.

Martin B. (1970). Brown bear, brown bear. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Martin B. (1970). Fire! Fire! said Mrs. McGuire. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Martin B. (1970). The haunted house. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Martin B. (1970). Instant readers. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Martin B. (1970). Sounds of language series. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Mayer M. (1968). If I had. … New York: Dial Press.

McGovern A. (1967). Too much noise. New York: Scholastic.

McGowen T. (n.a.). Dragon stew. New York: Harper & Row.

Mayer M. (1973). What do you do with a kangaroo? New York: Scholastic.

O'Neill M. (1961). Hailstones and halibut bones. New York: Doubleday.

Polushken Maria . (1978). Mother, Mother, I Want Another. New York: Crown Publishers.

Preston E. (1978). Where did my mother go? New York: Four Winds Press.

Quackenbush R. (1972). Old McDonald had a farm. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Quackenbush R. (1976). Pop goes the weasel. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Quackenbush R. (1973). She'll be comin' round the mountain. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Quackenbush R. (1975). Skip to my Lou. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Quackenbush R. (1974). There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Scheer J. , & Bileck M. (1964). Rain makes applesauce. New York: Holiday House.

Sendak M. (1962). Chicken soup and rice. New York: Williams & Son.

Sendak M. (1963). Where the wild things are. New York: Scholastic.

Shulevitz U. (1967). One Monday morning. New York: Scribner's.

Skaar G. (1972). What do the animals say? New York: Scholastic.

Spier P. (1970). Erie Canal. Garden City NY: Doubleday.

Spier P. (1961). The fox went out on a chilly night. Garden City NY: Doubleday.

Spier P. (1967). London bridge. Garden City NY: Doubleday.

Tolstoy A. (1968). The great big enormous turnip. New York: Franklin Watts.

Wager J. (1971). The bus ride. New York: Scott, Foresman.

Zaid B. (n.d.). Chicken Little. New York: Random House.

Zemach M. (1976). Hush, little baby. New York: E. P. Dutton.

Zemach M. (1965). The teeny tiny woman. New York: Scholastic.

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Goodman K. (1976). Reading: A psycholinguistic guessing game. In Singer H. & Ruddell R. (Eds.), Theoretical models and processes in reading (pp. 497–508). Newark DE: International Reading Association.

Goodman Y. , & Watson D. (1977, Nov./Dec.). A reading program to live with: Focus on comprehension. Language Arts, 54, 868–879.

Guthrie F. , & Cunningham P. (1982). Teaching decoding skills to educable mentally handicapped children. The Reading Teacher, 35, 554–560.

McKenzie M. (1977). The beginnings of literacy. Theory into Practice, 16, 315–325.

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Smith F. (1978). Reading without nonsense. New York: Teachers College Press.