Dwayne's Safari / The Life of a Giraffe
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, Dwayne’s Safari, readers count along with Dwayne as he sees new animals on safari. Dwayne and his family notice the long necks on the giraffes and their long black tongues. This fiction book is paired with the book, The Life of a Giraffe, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book introduces the real world of giraffes to amaze and engage children with science based description. Excite readers with this curious pairing about giraffes.
