Baby Seal Learns to Swim / The Life of a Seal
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, Baby Seal Learns to Swim, a baby seal and his mother have a day of learning together. The mother shows her baby seal how to swim and how to dive. He tries each and counts how many times he completes them. By the end of the day, he's tired and ready for a nap. This fiction book is paired with the book, The Life of a Seal, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, this descriptive life science book gives emerging readers a basic understanding of the habitat and behavior of seals in the wild. Invite your readers to experience seals through this well paired theme set.
