Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 2 | Rain, Rain, Go Away & It’s Raining, It’s Pouring 33

RRain, Rain, Go Away ain, Rain, Go Away

&& It’s Raining, It’s Pouring It’s Raining, It’s Pouring^2

 Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “Rain, Rain, Go Away”

 Identify Johnny as the character in “Rain, Rain, Go Away”

 Identify rhyming words in “Rain, Rain, Go Away”

 Stop here if you choose to split the lesson into two parts.

 Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring”

 Identify the old man as the character in “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring”

 Retell the events in “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring”

 Identify rhyming words in “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring”

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this lesson.

Objectives aligning with the Common Core State Standards are noted

with the corresponding standard in parentheses. Refer to the Alignment

Chart for additional standards that are addressed in all lessons in this

domain.

Students will:

 With prompting and support, describe illustrations, such as an

illustration of Johnny looking out the window at rain and an illustration

of an old man in bed, to support comprehension of the read-aloud

(RL.K.7)

 With prompting and support, compare and contrast similarities and

differences between “Rain, Rain, Go Away” and “It’s Raining, It’s

Pouring” (RL.K.9)

 With assistance, recall information from experiences to answer a

question about what people do when it is raining outside (W.K.8)