Predictable Chart Writing

Predictable Chart Writing is a whole-group activity which provides opportunities to teach all the many skills kids need to learn to become strong readers and writers. There are ways for EVERYONE to participate, including your beginning AAC users (sometimes known as "emergent communicators") but also including your more advanced AAC users, and verbal kids in your class. The class writes and publishes a book each week by following a repeated series of five lessons. Please check out the resources below to learn more:

Overview Video: 

Written descriptions:

• How to Prepare for Predictable Chart Writing (resource on the AAC Shared Drive, includes link to a document with sample sentence stems)

• Handout describing Predictable Chart Writing Steps

More Videos for each step: 

•  Video for Day 1 (Write the Chart)

• Video for Day 2 (Review the Chart)

• Video for Day 3 (Work with the chart) for students using Partner-Assisted Scanning  - skip to 5 minutes

• Video description of Day 3 (Work with the chart) for high-tech device users & all other students - skip to 55 minutes

•  Video for "Be The Sentence" (Day 4)

• Video for Day 4 & 5 ("Be The Sentence" and "Make the Book") with Partner-Assisted Scanning

I also discussed Predictable Chart Writing during my Literacy & AAC training.