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25 July 2025

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Reinforce your students’ understanding of The Long Rain with this engaging and accessible crossword puzzle. Featuring 19 carefully crafted clues, this interactive resource helps learners revisit key characters, themes, and vocabulary while strengthening their comprehension of Ray Bradbury’s tense and atmospheric short story.

Perfect for starters, plenaries, homework, revision sessions, or cover lessons, this no-prep activity offers a flexible and low-stakes way to consolidate learning.

What’s Included:
★ Printable crossword puzzle (PDF)
★ Full answer key for quick checking or self-assessment

This activity supports close reading, builds key vocabulary, and encourages independent thinking—making it a valuable addition to any short story unit.

Download now to add a quick and effective review task to your Long Rain lessons.

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The Long Rain Activities and Teaching Resources

Bring Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to Life with This Engaging Teaching Bundle! Step into the relentless downpour of Venus with this comprehensive resource pack, designed to support close reading and inspire thoughtful analysis of Ray Bradbury’s haunting short story The Long Rain. This bundle blends analytical thinking with creative expression, offering students a range of dynamic activities that explore the story’s atmosphere, psychological tension, and key themes—including isolation, resilience, technology, and the human mind under pressure. This download includes: ✔ The Long Rain Creative Writing Prompts – Inspire reflective and imaginative responses tied to setting, tone, and key ideas ✔ The Long Rain Word Search – Reinforce core vocabulary in a student-friendly way ✔ The Long Rain Crossword Puzzle – Test comprehension and build recall with this clue-based activity ✔ The Long Rain Creative Post-Reading Tasks – A choice of nine engaging extension activities, from diary entries to visual symbolism ✔ The Long Rain Roll the Dice Discussion Board – Encourage deep conversations with this interactive speaking and listening task ✔ The Long Rain Bingo Revision Game – A fast-paced way to review characters, events, and key concepts ✔ The Long Rain Essay Questions – 15 thoughtful prompts exploring theme, character, language, structure, and context Why choose this bundle? ✔ Versatile – Ideal for first encounters with the text or in-depth revision ✔ Engaging – A creative mix of writing, discussion, and visual tasks to suit different learners ✔ No-Prep – All resources are print-and-go, saving you valuable planning time Perfect for: ✔ KS3 & GCSE English ✔ Dystopian or sci-fi themed units ✔ Cover lessons and homework ✔ Creative writing and analytical extension tasks ✔ Revision and exam preparation 📥 Download today to immerse your students in Bradbury’s rain-drenched dystopia with this flexible, high-impact resource pack!

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