A Baby Brother / Why Babies Cry
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, follow a young boy as he comes up with ideas to soothe his crying baby brother. This highly relatable subject matter will inspire thought in your readers about what they could do to help soothe an upset baby. This fiction book is paired with the nonfiction book, Why Babies Cry, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. Preschoolers are fascinated by babies. Babies cry for a myriad of reasons which including being hungry, over tired, cold or hot, or because they are teething. With this theme set, help your readers explore the reasons why babies, or perhaps their baby brother or sister, cry.
