Big Rain Coming
Written by Katrina Germein
Illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
For ages 5 to 8
- adjectives
- temporal concepts
Review
In the Australian Outback, while staring at the dark clouds in the south, Old Stephen predicts there’s “big rain coming”. The children, panting dogs and fat green frogs do what they can to keep cool while waiting for the rain.
The stunningly beautiful illustrations and spare, yet incredibly descriptive language, evokes a sense of longing for the much-needed rain. This story can be used while teaching temporal concepts; such as day and night, and days of the week.
For further speech and language targets in Big Rain Coming, see the list below.
Book Details
Narrative Structure: Action Sequence
Story Plot: Repetitive Tale
- places - Australia, desert
- naidoc
- time
- weather
Speech and Language Targets
- /d/ - dark, drag, dogs, dusty, dug, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, thunder, old, cloud, bed, outside
- /n/ - no, night, thunder, afternoon, rain, green
- /r/ - rain
- /r/ blends - drag, breeze, green, grey, frogs
- /s/ - Sunday, Saturday
- /s/ blends - sleep, still, swim, dusty
- voiced /th/ - the, there, their, themselves, then
- unvoiced /th/ - thick, thunder, south
- adjectives
- copula (was)
- negatives (no)
- regular past tense
- irregular past tense verbs (dug, swam)
- action verbs
- labelling
- describing
- predicting
- making inferences
- descriptive concepts (warm, cool, fat, dark, wet, dry)
- temporal concepts (day, night, afternoon, evening, days of the week)
- time
- weather
- direct character speech
Book Info
Published by Penguin Books Australia in 2002 (ISBN: 9780143500452)