The Class Gift / Our Classroom Library
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, The Class Gift, Amy's class is doing a very nice thing. They're donating various kinds of books to the classroom library. This fiction book is paired with the book, Our Classroom Library, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book explores students’ use of their classroom library. Readers experience students choosing books and reading along and together, as well as participating with their teacher in small-group instruction. Spark discussion with early readers about the power of books with this important theme set.
