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“The Raindrops”
Buttercup Gold and Other Stories

Ellen Robena Field

Abstract: A short story about raindrops who fall from the sky and form pools of water that get bigger and flow into the oceans. There, they help form a rainbow showing that even the smallest of things can help to make something beautiful.

Source: Ellen Robena Field, Buttercup Gold and Other Stories (Bangor: C. H. Glass, 1894)


Lexile Level: TBD
       
Origin: American
       
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Reading Level: 8.4        Language: English        File Name: 0503
Sunshine State Standards:
LA.A.2.3: The student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts.

LA.D.2.3: The student understands the power of language.

LA.E.2.3: The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.


Theme: Religion, Nature
Reading Strategy: Literary Techniques (alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similie, etc)
 
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