Author/Illustrator: Gail Gibbons
Genre: Informational
Age Group: 3rd - 5th grade
Summary:
This book talks about the rain cycle. Starting with the importance of rain such as it is necessary for plants and animals to survive. Then it moves onto "The Water Cycle" and breaks it down for the reader, then onto clouds and the components of a cloud such as droplets, rain clouds, raindrops and then rain. Then onto the different rain clouds, there are such as stratus, nimbostratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus rain clouds. The book then continues on to talk about the different types of rain such as drizzle, shower, rain, rainstorms, thunderstorms, and flash floods. The last thing the book mentions is how to stay safe during the rain.
In my classroom, I would use this as an intro to the water cycle and then a segway on the different kinds of weather. I would have the students, in the beginning, make a water cycle foldable and then move on to making different foldables.
I think the age group is appropriate because 3rd through 5th is when students start to learn about earth science and this relates to earth science.
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