Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Come On, Rain!

Use Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In Come On, Rain!, a young girl named Tessie excitedly anticipates a looming rainstorm to break the boiling hot summer days. The language and illustrations in this story make it an ideal anchor text for teaching lessons focused on visualizing and identifying the author's purpose. Listen to an audiobook of Come On, Rain! on Epic here.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Come On, Rain! in the drop down below.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Come On, Rain!

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Come On, Rain!

This lesson plan is excellent practice in deciphering subtler author messages. Children typically perceive the rain as an obstacle to outdoor fun. Come On, Rain! will show students what wonderful outcomes a slight change in perspective can have.
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Making Predictions with Come On, Rain!

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Making Predictions with Come On, Rain!

Will it ever rain? Readers will delight in the anticipation of a cooling rain shower in Karen Hesse's Come On, Rain!. Students will use the clues found in the illustrations to help them think about what will logically happen next.
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Retelling & Summarizing with Come On, Rain!

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Retelling & Summarizing with Come On, Rain!

Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse has easily identifiable characters, setting elements, and story events making it perfect for a retelling and summarizing mini lesson. Readers will be able to remember the story's big event due to the way it impacts both the characters and the setting.
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Visualizing with Come On, Rain!

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Visualizing with Come On, Rain!

Come On, Rain! will draw your entire classroom into an engaging lesson on visualizing. Students can connect to their own feelings of a sweltering summer day and the excitement of splashing around in warm rain. Readers will star in their own mental movie thanks to the anticipation built by this author's vivid writing style.
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Compound Words with Come On, Rain!

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Compound Words with Come On, Rain!

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse as a springboard for instruction focused on compound words.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how compound words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with compound words.

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Vocabulary Connections with Come On, Rain!

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Vocabulary Connections with Come On, Rain!

This set of vocabulary development resources for Come On, Rain! highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

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Running Record with Come On, Rain!

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Running Record with Come On, Rain!

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with  Come, On Rain! Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Cause and Effect Matching with Come On, Rain!

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Cause and Effect Matching with Come On, Rain!

Read Come On, Rain! then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Come On, Rain!. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Come On, Rain!

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Come On, Rain!

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Come On, Rain! includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
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Writing with Come On, Rain!

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Writing with Come On, Rain!

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Come On, Rain! (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Come On, Rain! (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Come On, Rain! (Spanish)

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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Visualizing with Come On, Rain! (Spanish)

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Writing with Come On, Rain! (Spanish)

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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Rain! Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources
Title: Come On, Rain!
Author: Karen Hesse
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Summer, Friendship
ISBN: 9780590331258
Publisher's Summary:
"Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising joyous celebration....Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newbery medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.
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