A Tree's Tale / All About Forests
Rosen REAL Readers: STEM and STEAM Collection
Fiction and nonfiction pairs provide opportunities for students to analyze and compare different perspectives. This pairing supports thinking across texts by illustrating how different authors treat a similar topic. Excitingly, this pairing contrasts craft and structure of fiction with craft and structure of informational texts. This life science narrative book, A Tree’s Tale, describes how an oak tree grows. The text structure is descriptive and sequential. Readers will be helped with word recognition through the tight picture-text correlation. This fiction book is paired with the book, All About Forests. This nonfiction book, introduces concepts of life science and ecosystems. Awaken the ecologists in your readers through this theme set about trees.
