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Rain Reign
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Reading Questions & Paired Texts
Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.
CHAPTERS 1-13
Reading Check
1. Who is Rain?
2. What does Rose keep a list of?
3. Who is Mrs. Leibler, and for what tasks is she responsible?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. How does the way Rose’s father treats her compare to the way her uncle treats her?
2. How does Rose feel about rules? What are some examples of this?
3. How does Rain’s visit to Rose’s class affect her relationships with her peers?
Paired Resource
- This 5-minute animated resource video from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital explains symptoms and strengths of autism and debunks some common myths. Appropriate for a variety of grade levels, it may be helpful to pre-teach vocabulary used in the video such as non-verbal communication, sensory processing, perseverate, spectrum, and neurodiversity.
- The information in the video connects with the theme of Overcoming the Challenges Presented by Disability.
- How does Rose demonstrate the falseness of the myths presented in the video?
CHAPTERS 14-22
Reading Check
1. When Rose worries about the hurricane, what is Wesley’s response?
2. What physical damage does Rose’s home suffer from the storm?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. After the storm, what does Rose learn happened to Rain? How does Rose react?
2. How does the hurricane disrupt school and change its daily pattern?
CHAPTERS 23-34
Reading Check
1. When he can get to them, what does Weldon bring Rose and Wesley?
2. With which student in class is Rose making a connection?
3. Where does Rose find Rain?
4. What does Rose learn about Rain when she finds her?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What is Rose’s plan to find Rain?
2. How does Weldon react to the news that Rain is missing?
3. How have other students in Rose’s class been affected by the storm?
Paired Resource
“9 Steps to More Effective Parenting (for Parents)”
- Nemours Kids Health presents suggestions for strong parenting, including both an audio and written version.
- The ideas in this resource connect with the themes of Personal and Communal Trauma’s Effects on Children and Parental Competency in Caregiving.
- Which of these steps should Wesley take to be a more effective parent to Rose? In what ways does he act against the suggestions in this article?
“Childhood Trauma: 3 Ways to Help Kids Cope”
- This brief article sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics offers ideas for supporting young people through trauma.
- These ideas connect to the theme of Personal and Communal Trauma’s Effects on Children.
- Who helps Rose and her classmates as they recover from the hurricane? In what ways are their actions helpful?
CHAPTERS 35-44
Reading Check
1. What are some steps Rose takes to try to find Rain’s previous family?
2. How does Parvani bond with Rose?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why does Rose decide to try to find Rain’s previous owners?
2. In what ways is Wesley abusive to Rose and Rain?
3. How does Rose feel about Rain going to live with the Hendersons?
Paired Resource
“Greta Thunberg Likens Autism to Superpower”
- This article from the Organization for Autism Research presents information about Greta Thunberg, including her accomplishments and outspokenness about her Asperger’s diagnosis.
- This resource connects to the theme of Overcoming the Challenges Presented by Disability.
- How does Rose exhibit “superpowers”?
CHAPTER 45-AUTHOR’S NOTE
Reading Check
1. What suggestion from Weldon irritates Wesley?
2. Where does Wesley leave Rose?
3. Who else now keeps a list of homonyms?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. How do Weldon’s revelations about Rose’s mother affect her?
2. What “deal” do Rose and Weldon make, and how does Rose feel about it?
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Reading Questions Answer Key
CHAPTERS 1-13
Reading Check
1. Rose’s pet dog (Chapter 2)
2. Homonyms (Chapter 3)
3. Mrs. Leibler is Rose’s aide at school, responsible for accompanying her throughout the day and facilitating social engagement experiences. For example, Mrs. Leibler assigns two different peers to eat lunch with Rose each week. (Chapters 8-10)
Short Answer
1. Rose’s father lacks patience, snapping at Rose, expecting her to be different. He also spends little quality time with her. Her uncle, on the other hand, asks to spend more time with Rose, listens to her, and encourages her. He and Rose have a signal they do with each other, demonstrating connection and love. (Chapters 1-13)
2. Rose has rules for herself. She also adamantly believes rules should be enforced, calling out drivers’ disobedience with traffic rules (including the bus driver’s as she rides the bus) and becoming upset when Anders fails to return a classroom game. (Chapters 3 and 7-10)
3. Rose is mostly distant from her peers; for example, because she has no close friends, Mrs. Leibler assigns lunch buddies each week for Rose. When Rain appears in class looking for Rose, however, everyone loves the dog and they initiate comments and conversation about her. This leads some peers to connect with Rose. (Chapter 11)
CHAPTERS 14-22
Reading Check
1. Wesley is dismissive, saying they will be fine because they are inland. (Chapter 14)
2. Wesley and Rose lose electricity and have no phone service. Trees have been knocked down. The stream nearby has become a rushing torrent and destroyed part of their driveway making it impassable due to the high water of the stream. This leaves them cut off from the rest of town. (Chapters 18-19)
Short Answer
1. Rose cannot find Rain. Her father let the dog out during the storm. Rose calls and calls for her, but Rain is gone. Rose is angry at her father for letting Rain out alone in the storm, repeatedly asking him why he did so. (Chapters 18-20)
2. The day before the hurricane, the school day is reduced to a half-day. After the hurricane, school is canceled indefinitely as people try to recover from storm damage and flooding. When school resumes, taking time each day to check in and allow students to share what they are going through becomes the norm. (Chapters 17-21)
CHAPTERS 23-34
Reading Check
1. Groceries and supplies to start rebuilding the bridge (Chapter 25)
2. Parvani (Chapters 27, 29)
3. At the Happy Tails Animal Shelter in Elmara, New York (Chapter 32)
4. Rain is healthy and safe. The shelter workers found that Rain has an identification microchip and a previous family. (Chapters 32-34)
Short Answer
1. Rose identifies animal shelters on a map and decides to call the closest ones first. She also will hang up posters. (Chapters 23-25)
2. Weldon is concerned for Rain and Rose and helps Rose plan ways to look for Rain, such as the use of posters advertising a lost dog. He also drives her to shelters to search. (Chapters 24-26)
3. Two families including Anders’s have had to move because they lost their homes. Parvani’s mother’s artwork was destroyed, which causes Parvani to cry. (Chapter 27)
CHAPTERS 35-44
Reading Check
1. Rose hangs posters, visits the address on the microchip, and helps with an article about Rain. (Chapters 36-39)
2. Parvani shares excitement over homonyms. (Chapter 40)
Short Answer
1. Rose remembers how she felt when Rain was lost; she imagines Rain’s previous owners feeling that way too. She also believes in rules and doing what is right, which the reader can infer affects her decision. (Chapter 35)
2. Wesley yells at Rose and walks toward her in a frightening way. He also hits Rain. He threatens Rose if she tells anyone about this episode. He has been verbally and emotionally abusive and threatening in earlier scenes too. (Chapters 41-42)
3. Rose recognizes how much the previous owners love Rain and is glad Rain will be taken care of. She also feels some relief that Rain will be safe from her father. Still, she is heartbroken to lose Rain. (Chapter 44)
CHAPTER 45-AUTHOR’S NOTE
Reading Check
1. Weldon suggests Wesley allow Rose to have another dog. (Chapter 46)
2. At Weldon’s home (Chapter 47)
3. Parvani (Chapter 49)
Short Answer
1. Rose believed her mother left when Rose was very young, and she blamed herself for her mother’s abandonment. When Weldon reveals her mother died, Rose gains a new perspective of her mother. It also underscores her father’s lies. She and Weldon discuss her father, leading to her understanding that her father left to do the right thing for her and a reflection that she and her father are both brave. (Chapter 48)
2. Rose and Weldon make a deal to get a dog. Rose feels glad they have a plan, as shown by her smile. (Chapter 49)
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