Tanya's Craft Project / All About Ramps
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, Tanya’s Craft Project, Tanya creates a ramp for one of her toy cars by stacking blocks. Through strong picture text correlation and colorful eye-catching illustrations, readers follow along sequentially, as Tanya discovers what she can create with the simple things around her. This fiction book is paired with the book, All About Ramps, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, Exploring force and motion with beginning readers through a toy will allow readers to comprehend a basic concept of physics clearly and easily. Help your readers become successful learners with this theme set about force and motion.
