Demarco's Perfect Circles / Circles on My Tablet
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 narrative book, Demarco’s Perfect Circles, Demarco introduces readers to art and technology themes, as he learns to draw circles. When his own hand-drawn circles are personally dissatisfying, Demarco gets some help from his mother and her trusty tablet. This fiction title is paired with the book, Circles on My Tablet, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book provides opportunities for the teacher to introduce technology.
