Lily's Tomato / My Tomato Plant
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. In the fictional narrative, Lily’s Tomato, a juicy, plump, yummy tomato awaits Lily as all her work is finally coming to fruition. Readers follow along as her tomato plant grows, until it is time to enjoy the rewards. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Tomato Plant, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, a first-person account of caring for a garden and growing a tomato plant provides strong cause and effect evidence within the text structure of sequence. Help inspire your little gardeners with this theme set about tomato plants.
