Brett Meets the Bee Lady / Bees, Bees, Bees
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, Brett Meets the Bee Lady, Brett and his father see six white boxes in a neighbor's backyard. In this descriptive fictional text, colorful illustrations will help the reader learn about a bee's life cycle and job. This fiction book is paired with the book, Bees, Bees, Bees. While readers wisely avoid bees in real life, they'll love this nonfiction book’s up-close investigation of the bee. The bee life cycle and habitat is explained, as well as their contributions to each other and us. Inspire future bee keepers through this thoughtfully paired theme set.
