Page 20 What is hail? How do you It leaves them think it might be different from rain? wanting more. What do the sounds that the illustrator includes tell us about hail? Asking this question highlights the author’s use of figurative language and imagery in the book. The rain like a “is faucet” and sky “The open”. “cracks Page 22 How do you know the is over? When a faucet What is a on, water “hush”? gushes from the faucet Why are the animals anxious to go similarly to outside? rain coming suddenly out of a cloud overhead. Gushing Page 23 What clues in the illustrations means a fast show the storm is over? pouring of liquid. Page 30 What good things came from Accept various the storm? answers from students.
Page 20 What is hail? How do you think it might be different from rain? What do the sounds that the illustrator includes tell us about hail? Page 22 How do you know the is over? What is a “hush”? Why are the animals anxious to go outside? Page 23 What clues in the illustrations show the storm is over? Page 30 What good things came from the storm? It leaves them wanting more. Asking this question highlights the author’s use of figurative language and imagery in the book. The rain “is like a faucet” and “The sky “cracks open”. When a faucet on, water gushes from the faucet similarly to rain coming suddenly out of a cloud overhead. Gushing means a fast pouring of liquid. Accept various answers from students.
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