Hot Rocks / All About Sunlight
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 STEM and STEAM fictional narrative, Hot Rocks, provides emerging readers the chance to experience geology at their ability level. Lively, engaging fiction is used to provide readers with a distinct point of view. This fiction book is paired with the book, All About Sunlight, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book explains that, plants, animals, and humans rely heavily on sunlight. With this theme set, walk your readers through the beginning scientific concept of sunlight while providing them with some important scientific ideas.
