Clothes for Rain written by Gill Howell , Oxford Reading ~ P Tree _ Fireflies What’s this story about? This book compares the different clothes a boy and his teddy wear in the rain. The boy wears big clothes and the teddy wears little clothes. Finally, they both share a big umbrella. Talk together Read the title on the cover and talk about the special clothes you wear so as not to get wet in the rain. Ask, “What do you wear in the rain? Do you wear big boots? Do you carry a small or big umbrella?” Read the book) {(-wortreontion @ = anguesecompreh © on pages 2 and 3, together find the words ‘big’ and ‘little’. @ Ask, “What is different about the boy's clothes and the teddy’s clothes?” © Encourage the child to use the pictures to check their reading of the words ‘hat’, ‘coat’ and ‘boots’. © on page 8, help the child to sound out the graphemes in u-m-b-r-e-ll-a, @ Talk about big and little clothes. Ask, “Have you put on boots that are too big or too small?” wn)Clothes For Rain Gill Howell OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSLook at Teddy’s .- hat.Look at my big coat.Look at Teddy’s - coat. sLook at my big boots.Look at Teddy’s .~ boots.Look at our big umbrella.Other ideas You can use these ideas straight away, or on another day. Ask the child to find two letters that make one sound. Prompt. with an example, e.g. ‘00’ in ‘Look’, ‘oa’ in ‘coat’. Talk about the clothes you wear for other types of weather such as snow or hot sunshine. Acknowledgements Photography by Michael Dunning, With special thanks to our model Jack Price, Teddy Bears of Witney. © 2005 Margarete Steiff GmbH, © Paddington and Company Ltd 2005 for their help in making this book. ISBN: 978-0-19.847248-0 10987654321 Printed in China by ImagoOxford Reading Stage 1+ Tree Wel coM acct KwAN So ge TD Fireflies Clothes for Rain Look what we wear when it’s raining. Stage 1+ More Fireflies Pack A Clothes for Rain Animal Faces On the Beach Put on a Clown Face The Fire Engine Hop, Skip and Jump Available in packs Stage 1+ More Fireflies A Pack ISBN 978-0-19-847346-6 Stage 1+ More Fireflies A Class Pack ISBN 978-0-19-847347-3 ISBN 978-0-19-847348-0 OXFORD Orders and enquiries to Customer Services: tel, 01536 452610 UNIVERSTEY PRESS For further information, phone the Oxford Literacy Careline: 9 tel, 01865 353881 © Oxford University Press 2003 ‘www.OxfordPrimary.co.uk ‘This edition published 2008