By Lee Bennett Hopkins
and
Cracking---
Racing
and
Roaring---
It
whips
through
a cloud.
Why
must
thunder
come rumbling
this
LOUD?
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| Introduction: Play a nature music tape which has rain and thunder. Read the following poem. | ||||||||||||
| Thunder By Lee Bennett Hopkins |
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| Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Weather: poems for all seasons. HarperCollins: New York. 1994. | ||||||||||||
| Crashing and Cracking--- Racing and Roaring--- It whips through a cloud. Why must thunder come rumbling this LOUD? |
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| Extension: Write the poem on the board and have the students read the poem with you. Read the together with the tape playing. Read the poem a third time having the students join in for the words "cracking, crashing, roaring, and racing" only. | ||||||||||||