Charlie's Sand Castle / Using Rough and Smooth Things to Make Art
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, Charlie’s Sand Castle, readers will delight with Charlie's castle in this compare and contrast narrative. He uses tools to build his dream castle, adding found objects from the seaside. This fiction book is paired to the book, Using Rough and Smooth, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This descriptive nonfiction book combines science and art to show how through sequences, classification, and categorization materials are chosen to make an art project. Help readers understand materiality through the guise of art in this well paired theme set.
