This teacher's curriculum guide presents strategies for engaging readers before, during, and after reading the book. It also provides extension strategies to further students’ understanding through analysis of verbs and narrative writing tasks.

Visual Strategies for Improving Communication. Teachers will learn how using photos can help meet the Speaking and Listening Standards.

This is a first grade science unit on weather.  Students will observe, measure, describe and record aspects of weather such as temperature, air, wind and clouds. They will also practice using various weather tools, and look for patterns in weather over a year-long span.

Students will listen to a reading of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs by Judi Barrett.  This book is accessible via NC Kids Digital Library. After the read aloud, students will have the opportunity to engage in The Engineering Design Process to design a prototype/model of a hat or clothing to show how people might adapt to the unusual weather conditions as depicted in the story.  Students will present their design/prototypes and explain how the designs help people adapt to weather conditions, per the NC Kindergarten Social Studies Standards.