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This engaging and thought-provoking double lesson is designed to accompany class reading of the James Carter poem 'Once Upon A Raindrop.’ By the end of the double lesson, children develop a secure understanding of the key meanings of the poem and enhanced contextual knowledge about water and the water cycle.

The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Making predictions;
-Retrieving information and explaining key ideas;
-Ordering and sequencing information.

The lesson breaks the poem down into two halves, with a range of retrieval/explanation questions following each reading.
Two deeper thinking activities are also included - one requires children to rank/ order the key facts that they have learnt about water using a ‘Diamond 9’ activity - for this activity the fact cards are included (in both Word and PDF).
The other deeper thinking activity requires children to summarise and sequence the main events of the water cycle, based on the information provided in the poem - again, the template for this is provided in both Word and PDF.

There is a lot of content here (the PowerPoint presentation is 20 slides long, in addition to templates/helpsheets), so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two or even three lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in lower KS2 (I originally used these resources with a year 3 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.