Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

46 Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 2B | It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Discussing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

Comprehension Questions

If students have difficulty responding to questions, reread pertinent lines

of the nursery rhyme and/or refer to the image. If students give one-

word answers and/or fail to use read-aloud or domain vocabulary in their

responses, acknowledge correct responses by expanding the students’

responses using richer and more complex language. Encourage students to

answer in complete sentences. Model answers using complete sentences.

1. Literal What is the title of this poem?
   
   
   • The title of this poem is “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring.”
   
   
   
   


2. Literal Who is the character in this poem?
   
   
   • The character in this poem is an old man.
   
   
   
   


3. Inferential What do you know about the character in this nursery
   rhyme?
   
   
   • The old man is snoring. The old man bumped his head. The old man
     could not get up in the morning.
   
   
   
   


4. Literal What is the weather like in this nursery rhyme?
   
   
   • It is pouring. It is raining very hard.
   
   
   
   


5. Evaluative Can the events of this nursery really happen? Why?
   
   
   • Events in this nursery can really happen because it rains, people snore,
     and people can bump their heads.
   
   
   
   


6. Evaluative Which words rhyme in this poem?
   
   
   • Pouring and snoring rhyme. Head and bed rhyme.
     [Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
     necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]
     I am going to ask a question. I will give you a minute to think about the
     question. Then I will ask you to turn to your partner and discuss the
     question. Finally, I will call on several of you to share what you discussed
     with your partner.
   
   
   
   

Sentence Frames
Are both poems about the rain?
(Yes/No)
The poems are similar
because ...
The poems are different
because...

7. Evaluative Think Pair Share: How are the nursery rhymes “Rain, Rain,
   Go Away” and “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring” similar and different?
   
   
   • Answers may vary, but should include that both are about rain and the
     characters are different.