Gary's Gears / Engineers Work with Gears
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, Gary’s Gears, a bike ride with Gary turns into a fun learning experience about gears and how they work as he and his father explore the world of gears, and fix his bike in the process. This fiction book is paired to the book, Engineers Work With Pulleys, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This explicit nonfiction STEAM book shows principles of force and motion and how engineers use technology to do their jobs in a variety of contexts. Help to inspire readers through this physical science based theme set.
