A Gift for My Moms / Art with Rectangles
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 this descriptive fictional narrative, colorful illustrations and descriptive text will help readers follow along as Antu decides to make a gift for her moms. Antu follows the directions to build a butterfly house, and she succeeds. This fiction book is paired with the book, Art with Rectangles. This sequential narrative steps readers through making a frame in art class. Tools and mathematics are subtly introduced to produce the final creation. Inspire readers with this interesting theme set about art and math.
