Rain

First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning  comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading instructional activity, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by Robert Kalan. Students reread the book repeatedly throughout the week focusing on skills such as sight vocabulary and fluency. Cross curriculum science ideas about seeds and rainbows, as well as several other books and poems with a "rain" theme, are provid