Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 2B | It’s Raining, It’s Pouring 43
Purpose for Listening
The title of this poem is “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring.” Tell students to listen
to find out what happens to the character—the old man—in this nursery
rhyme.
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
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”