The Rhythm of the Rain FREE Lesson 1 | Year 3 and 4 English

A free Rhythm of the Rain lesson for Year 3 and 4: a body-percussion rainstorm leads into a sound poem with sound words and the y that says i.
Listen to the Rain is the first lesson of our complete The Rhythm of the Rain English unit. The class makes a rainstorm with body percussion, quiet to loud and back again, then explores the book’s wordless endpapers and cover. Pupils write My Rain Score, a three-verse sound poem (drizzle, downpour, drip), and perform it.

What’s included
• A PowerPoint presentation with a spelling guide, Show Me tasks and a hinge question
• A detailed three-page teacher plan (Word and PDF) with a 60-minute timeline
• Worksheet A and a supported Worksheet B, in colour and black and white
• Lesson 1 printables: rainstorm conductor cards

Learning objective
To write a rain score using sound words, spelling words where y makes the i sound (Years 3 and 4 spelling, National Curriculum English).

Want the rest of the unit? All 15 lessons, the fold-out loop book finale and the full printables are in The Rhythm of the Rain Planning | Year 3 and 4 English Unit.

You will need the book: The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith.