A Dog Called Rainy is an early reader, one of the most important ways children learn to read and learn to like reading is by being with readers. Every time you read aloud, listen to your child read or read along you are providing support that he or she needs as an emerging reader. The story of "A Dog Called Rainy" is a fictional script that teaches responsibility as told by Alice. She has a big job that her sisters' help is encouraged in training the dog Rainy. Some information about care of a puppy is true. First, Alice did not like her puppy but as the story ends Alice likes her dog.