Cornelia knows just what each of her friends will like and incorporates these special touches into each of the Valentine cards she makes. Students will build on their natural curiosity by asking questions using this focused mini lesson.

Students will practice sorting through Cornelia's actions, thoughts, and feelings to determine the ones that are most important to understanding The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond.

Because author Felicia Bond makes The Day It Rained Hearts easy for children to relate to, they are easily able to practice identifying the deeper meaning and purpose of the story.

This making inferences mini lesson will guide readers in using the clues author Felicia Bond incorporates into the text and illustrations to increase their understanding of this heartfelt story of friendship.

Use this lesson plan and set of resources to guide your students to use their prior knowledge, the illustrations, and the text to make meaningful predictions about what will happen next in The Day It Rained Hearts.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Day It Rained Hearts 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.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of The Day It Rained Hearts.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Day It Rained Hearts. 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.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Day It Rained Hearts 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.

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.

Read The Day It Rained Hearts 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 The Day It Rained Hearts. 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.