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Rain - Wind

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ryan, Pam Munoz. The Dreamer. Scholastic Press, 2010. Hardcover.

• The book begins with a poem about poetry.

• In “Rain,” it is raining in Temuco, Chile.

• Neftali Reyes is sitting in his bed struggling with addition problems for his homework.

• He imagines that all the numbers except the zeros and nines fly off the page.

• He goes to the window where winter has turned the world gray and wet.

• He sees a stream flowing through a hole in a fence.

• He wishes that a friend would come to live in the abandoned house.

• He listens to the sound of the rain that drips through the roof and plops into pots.

• He hears someone in the hall, and he worries that it is his father.

• The footsteps pass his room, and he decides it must...

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