Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

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This book has strong links to geography (African geography, wildlife and understanding concepts such as drought), history and exposes children to African folktales. The rhymed words are not forced by using archaic grammar They are all easy to read and well within a child’s working vocabulary. For more advanced students or as a class shared writing experience, a different myth could be rewritten in the repetitive pattern of the book. Verna Aardema was an award-winning American author who published retellings of many African traditional tales. The sensory stimuli don't just support the words in telling the story, if well chosen, they tell the story in their own right.

The poem has repetitive portions that keep building on itself again and again as the story progresses. Musical Instruments Educational Poster, Musical Instruments, Music Poster, Preschool, Homeschool Resource, Kindergarten ₹200. This would also be an effective scaffolding exercise as the language used in Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain is quite complex, with lots of tricky words.

By the way, she couldn't make out the words in "Canterbury Tales" The reason was because it was written and printed in Old English. This is not a new text; originally written in 1981, it has been present in the larger canon of children’s literature for nearly 40 years (also winning multiple awards). Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears , also illustrated by the Dillons, was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1976 and was chosen as an ALA Notable Children’s Book, as was a third Aardema-Dillon collaboration, Behind the Back of the Mountain . This gorgeous, lyrical text, written in cumulative rhyme, retells the traditional story of a drought which sweeps across the Kapiti Plain, Kenya.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Stories like this one may begin to open their understanding to the fact that other people do not have access to the resources they take for granted.In this lovely rhyming picture book, based upon the folk traditions of the Nandi people of Kenya, a herdsman named Ki-pat finds a way to end the drought, and bring some much-needed rain to Kapiti Plain.