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Sing Down the Rain:
Slide Show


This Web-based slide show is designed to support students' presentation of the choral reading of Sing Down the Rain. It can be projected from the Web as students perform. Readers, however, must be in the light in order to see their readers' theatre scripts. The slides are best viewed in the dark. You will have to make adjustments based on your performance environment.

The slide show can also be used as one person reads the book. When I read the poem as just one voice, I do not read all the verses. After the first cloud verse and until I reach the rain storm, I share only the new voice and the cloud voice.

There are 12 slides in the show. The slide sequence matches the sequence of illustrations in the book. For a seamless presentation, open each page in advance in order to build a cache of the interlaced gif image files.

Click on the to advance to the next slide. Begin the slide show pages.