The Marble Match / Playing With Marbles
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, The Marble Match, friends find a way to cooperate through the conflict resolution surrounding a marble match. Readers will be excited to follow this story though eye-catching illustrations and sequential text. Through the subjects introduced in this book, inspire discussion with early readers about friendship and what it means to be a good friend. This fiction book is paired with the book, Playing with Marbles, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book exploring the scientific about force and motion with beginning readers through a toy will allow them to comprehend a basic concept of physics clearly and easily.
