Hannah and the Hurricane / Storms
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, Hannah and the Hurricane, Hannah likes most storms because they're exciting, but she gets scared when a storm turns into something much more. Readers follow along as Earth science concepts are introduced, and watch as Hannah learns more about hurricanes in order to make herself feel safe. This fiction book is paired with the book, Storms, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book helps readers interpret and analyze weather information which provides emerging readers with information on many kinds of storms in this image-rich nonfiction text. Excite readers through this well paired theme set about storms.
