The Finger Paint Party / Painting with My Fingers
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 Finger Paint Party, Lia has a finger paint party. Bright illustrations and explicit text will help readers follow Lia and her friends as they make fingerprints on paper and turn them into animals. This fiction book is paired with the book, Painting with My Fingers. This nonfiction book explores finger painting through color photographs, guided activities, and diagrams. Inspire creativity in your readers through this creatively paired theme set.
