Jake Makes Grape Jelly / All About Grapes
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, Jake Makes Grape Jelly, Jake grows grapes and makes grape jelly out of them. The text structure is descriptive, and readers will be helped with word recognition through their familiarity with the fruit and the tight picture-text correlation. This fiction book is paired with the book, All About Grapes. In this nonfiction book, sequential text explains that grapes are fruit, how they grow, and which kinds there are that children can enjoy. Liven up readers with this theme set about grapes.
