Clara and the Ladybug / I See a Ladybug
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 this life science fiction book, Clara and the Ladybug, Clara presents facts about ladybugs. The text structure is descriptive, and kids will be helped with word recognition through their familiarity with the bug and the tight picture-text correlation. This fiction book is paired with the book, I See a Ladybug. In this nonfiction book, readers are treated to an up-close look at the key details of the vibrantly-colored lady bug. Enthuse your readers through this theme set about ladybugs.
