Packing for Our Trip / Hot Days, Cold Days
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 brightly illustrated fictional narrative, readers sequentially follow as a family packs for a trip away from home. Readers see how they choose the clothes needed for the type of trip they are going to take. Should a sweater, or a swim suit be packed for a trip to the beach? Readers discover what is appropriate and can apply this knowledge to their own lives. This fiction book is paired with the book, Hot Days, Cold Days, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, the scientific concept of hot and cold is explored through outdoor temperature. Through the guise of the seasons, your readers will begin to understand how to clothe themselves in response to outdoor temperature, and what it feels like to be cold or hot when outdoors. With this theme set, discuss this concept with your readers using this clear approach.
