Students will think critically to analyze many choices the author makes in this book including word choice and the inclusion of particular nonfiction text features as they work through this component.

The questions in this mini lesson will provide readers with the opportunity to make predictions based on the photographs, chapter titles, and text in this book.

In this mini lesson, students will think about the main idea and important details in this book as they practice retelling and summarizing the text.

Students will gain new knowledge about the weather after reading the text and examining the photographs in this book, and through answering the questions in this mini lesson will think metacognitively about how their knowledge has changed.

As they work through this component, students will examine the author's structural choices in the text and consider the author's purpose in using these text structures to write for clarity and meaning.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Weather by Kristin Baird Rattini as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how long vowel sounds -ea and -ee are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Weather 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 Weather.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Weather. 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.

Read Weather 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 Weather. 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.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Weather 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.