A Big Change / Tawana Presents Her Idea
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, A Big Change, colorful illustrations and domain-specific vocabulary will help readers follow along as Cindy starts a new school, and her new teacher asks her to do an experiment. Readers learn along with Cindy what happens when certain ingredients are mixed. She learns that change is hard, but it can still be fun. This fiction book is paired with the book, Tawana Presents Her Idea. In this nonfiction book the topic of bullying is explored through Tawana's individual presentation project to explain what bullying is and what children can do about it, including herself. Help to guide your readers with this theme set about overcoming new challenges.
