APIEReading: How Rain Forms
Rainy days indoors
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How Rain Forms
A short story about water, clouds, and raindrops
📌 How to use this lesson
For Teacher: This 8-minute reading activity helps A1 learners understand rain formation. Have students read the passage, answer all 8 questions, and check the explanation after each answer.
For Learner: Read the short story about rain carefully. Next, answer the 8 questions below from easy to hard.
📖 Reading Passage
🔊 ListenWater goes up from the land and the sea into the air. It becomes a gas called water vapor. High in the sky, the water vapor cools and turns into clouds. Inside the clouds, small water drops join together and get bigger. When they are too heavy, they fall to Earth as rain. Right now, clouds cover about half of our planet.
💡 Word Helper
water vapor
water in the air like a gas
cool
to get colder
join
to come together
heavy
weighing a lot, hard to hold
planet
the Earth where we live
✏️ Questions (1 - 8)
Water turns into water vapor in the air.
Water goes up only from the sea.
What happens when water vapor cools down?
What do small drops do inside a cloud?
Drops fall as rain when they are too ____.
Clouds cover all of the Earth right now.
Where does rain come from?
Water vapor turns into clouds when it ____.
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