Come On, Rain! Activities: Mentor Text Unit for Grades 3-5

Description

These Come On, Rain! activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade use Karen Hesse’s book to teach students to read like writers and write like readers. Its vivid verbs and figurative language put students right in the middle of a hot summer day waiting for rain, and the story is fun to pair with a weather unit.

This unit gives you a mentor sentence lesson, reading, language, and writing activities, and vocabulary practice for one read-aloud, in print and in Google Slides. The book is not included, so check your library or look for an online read-aloud.

How the Come On, Rain! activities work:

Read the book aloud, then use the activities across your reading and writing time:

• Grammar: students study a mentor sentence from the book, an interactive notebook activity reviews vivid verbs, and language activities practice adjectives and verbs.
• Reading: activities for visualizing, supporting with evidence, character traits, character development, and finding and analyzing figurative language.
• Writing: two writing ideas with a prompt.
• Vocabulary: contextual practice with words from the story.

What’s included:

• A mentor sentence lesson for Come On, Rain!
• An interactive notebook activity for vivid verbs
• Reading activities for visualization, supporting with evidence, character traits, character development, and figurative language
• Language activities for adjectives and verbs
• Two writing ideas with a prompt
• Contextual vocabulary activities
• Links to Google Slides versions for digital learning

Why use a mentor text?

One good picture book can carry a grammar lesson, reading skills, and a writing prompt at the same time. Students hear the story once and return to it for each skill, so your read-aloud time does more than one job.

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