Mr. Adams Shows Us Vibration / The Tuning Fork
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, Mr. Adams Shows Us Vibration, readers learn about instruments that require vibration to make a sound or note. By following a simple experiment, readers learn building skills and the scientific reason why something vibrates. This fiction book is paired with the book, The Tuning Fork, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book explains that a tuning fork is a metal implement with two prongs. It gives a constant fixed tone when struck and is used to tune musical instruments. Expose your readers to the scientific happening behind vibration with this well paired theme set.
