Bird and Rabbit / Over and Under
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. Bird and Rabbit, a narrative book, teaches the differences of over and under, while also including some opportunities to count. Bird and Rabbit are friends, but they are very different animals with very different habits, as readers will discern. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title Over and Under for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book provides photo illustrations and tight picture-text correlation to help emerging readers gain master over these prepositions and directional indicators.
