We Are Friends of the Earth / Respect for Planet Earth
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 this imaginative fictional narrative, We Are Friends of the Earth, readers follow children sequentially as they clean up a park in their community. Helping readers find ways to care for the Earth is an important value to instill in them. With this book, help them gain knowledge about the environment and how to care for it. Perhaps it will even inspire them to take on a cause they believe in. This fiction book is paired with the book, Respect for Planet Earth, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This volume discusses the Earth and the types of respectful ecologically driven acts a person can do to make our Earth a better place. Whether recycling, putting trash it its place, or educating others about how to be respectful, readers discover how it takes each one of us to reuse, recycle, and respect our planet. Help inspire the future tree huggers in your classroom through this theme set.
