Summary

In the rhythm of the folk song "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," a child who loves to paint the walls and everything else he sees cannot resist adding one more dab of paint to some surprising places.

Scholastic Press    

Reading Strategies ~ Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey

Making Connections
Text to Text
The main character in this story gets into a great deal of trouble with paint.  Compare him with characters in other books that get into trouble using the following graphic organizer. 

Possible Literature Choices

• Sometimes I’m Bombaloo

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

• No, David!

• It’s Tough to be Five

• Harold and the Purple Crayon

• Ramona Quimby

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

Visualizing
Use this activity as a prewriting exercise to help explain the importance of language in a piece of writing.  Do not show students the cover or pictures in this book! Give each student a piece of paper and a pack of water colors.  Have them draw a very basic person and paint what they “see” as you read the book aloud.  

Have students create a mental image by completing the chart below. 

Inferring
Discuss with students how they think the main character feels at different points in the story and why.

• When he painted on the floor, ceiling, walls, curtains & door
• When his mother hollered like never before
• When he paints his head and the rest of his body
• When he finds out there is no more paint

Determining Importance
Discuss how you think the main character’s mother is going to feel when she sees her child and her house.  Why do you think she will respond this way?
 

Writing Strategies ~ 6+1 Traits of Writing by Ruth Culham

Focus Trait: Sentence Fluency
Support Trait (Secondary Trait): Word Choice 

This book follows the trait of sentence fluency (rhyme and rhythm) and word choice. The students will also be proofreading when they revise/edit which integrates the trait of conventions. Before writing, the students should listen and discuss the writing style of this book’s author.  

DAY 1:

1.          HOOK: There are many different versions of the song, “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More.”(See sample copy in packet). Before reading the book, I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More, play/sing this song with your children in your class. Discuss the rhyme scheme in the song. (You may also want to discuss the word “ain’t” with your children too). The author, Karen Beaumont has adapted this song in to her book. The children will see/hear many connections. Here is a great link for the song, “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More.”

http://www.musiclegacy.com/Pages/itaintgonnarain.htm 

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/3192/Itaintrain.html (Music to go with the song) 

2.         Read aloud/Introduce I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More. Point out the witty and colorful illustrations that David Caltrow uses in this book. This story has hilarious rhyming couplets. As you are reading, stress how the words, the rhyme scheme, the punctuation and the illustrations let us hear so clearly the VOICE of the main character as he goes about doing what his mother doesn’t want him to do. This would be an EXCELLENT place for the children to make connections to the story. (See packet for connections graphic organizer)

Day 2 

3.         Reread the book I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More. Put up an overhead of the resource sheet with the student samples. (See attachment/sheet in packet). Divide the students up into small groups and have them discuss SENTENCE FLUENCY and WORD CHOICE that they see in the samples on the overhead. Have the groups make a T-chart graphic organizer on the chart paper with sentence fluency on one side and words choice on the other. Have them write their ideas/thoughts on chart paper.  (Sentence Fluency-Do the sentences make sense? Do they rhyme? Do your sentences start with different words? Do you have some long sentences and some short sentences?) (Word Choice- Does your writing have many adjectives? Did you use the same word over and over? )You may have to go back and review/teach the trait of sentence fluency and/or word choice  BEFORE doing this lesson. (There are posters in your packet you can use as a reference) Have the students share their T-Charts in front of the class.  

4.         The students will now begin to brainstorm for their own poems that they are going to create. (Show samples that students made up- See worksheet in packet) Pass out graphic organizer for brainstorming rhyming words (in packet).  

Day 3- BEGIN WRITING POEM 

 Today you'll be writing your own four-line poem that can be sung to the tune "It Ain't Gonna Rain no more." 

SAMPLE:  

I did find a squid on the beach on the beach.
I did find a squid on the beach.
I screamed and I yelled and the ocean swelled
When I did find a squid on the beach.
                             --Jasmine D., age 11

Just like Karen Beaumont in her book I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!, you will try to use internal rhymes.

The internal rhymes in Jasmine's poem (above) have been written in bold for you to see easier.  Think you can do that too?

Your teacher should have given you a worksheet that helped you come up with some words that might rhyme in your poem's first and second lines.  Be sure you use that worksheet!  It'll really help.

If the students need help coming up with rhyming words, this is an excellent website to help them! - www.rhymezone.com  

Day 4- Revising with the specific trait language 

1.  Pass out the Sentence Fluency Post-its and the Word Choice Post-its. (In packet)

2. The students will edit/revise using these checklists ranking from 1-5 using the traits of sentence fluency and word choice.

3. When the students are ready to publish their poems, they can type them or write them…whatever you would like! J

4. We are going to share them with our book buddies!  

( We also put a conventions checklist in your packet as well so the students can check/rank their poems for correct conventions) 

** This is an EXCELLENT site for art lessons, art games, painting interactive websites, museums, and much more! Jhttp://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/for-kids.htm

• Creativity

• Perseverance

• Check out the poetry lesson on the WritingFix website!  Students are challenged to create their own original poem that can be set the same tune used for our book, It Ain't Gonna Rain No More!

• If you don't know the tune of the folk song It Ain't Gonna Rain No More!, click here to listen to a music clip.  Your students that are involved in scouting may know other versions of this song!

• If your students cannot get enough funny poems, direct them to this website!

• Here's a messy activity for a rainy day!  Outline the students bodies on bulletin board paper.  Let them select from a variety of markers, fingerpaint, or paint to create their own illustrations for I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!  Not feeling quite so brave?  Copy a simple body outline and have the students "paint" with colored pencils, crayons, or markers!

• The abstract artist, Jackson Pollack, produced art in one phase of his career by dripping paint on a canvas.  Learn more about Jackson Pollack at this website.   Let your students explore this art form and action paint just like Pollack at this website.  They can drip paint online just by moving the mouse!  The color changes when the left mouse button is clicked.  The page can be cleared by hitting the space bar.  Warning!  This can be addictive!

• Go to Destination Modern Art to tour the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art!  Your students will enjoy following the visiting alien and all of the activities that accompany the art samples.

• Use KidPix to allow your students to explore different types of "paint application" without the mess!  Students can experiment with color and use spray paint or splatters to create their own work of art!

• Start a discussion of brain theory by having the students take the Stroop Effect test!  Names of colors are printed in a different color.  Students must name that color the word is printed in, not the color name!  The website has a timer so students can challenge each other.  There are other examples at the bottom of the site!

• Students can view these Reading Rainbow videos to learn more about the world of art:  Regina's  Big Mistake (PRO 701.1 REG) and Appelemando' Dream (PRO 701.1 APP).

• BrainPop has a video and accompanying quiz about Color.  Remember you can now link directly to a logged in version of BrainPop and BrainPop Jr. from your applications launcher!  This will make it much easier to use BrainPop with your class in the lab!