Jeff's Trip to Holland / Building Dikes and Levees
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 fictional narrative, Jeff’s Trip to Holland, readers follow Jeff’s adventure sequentially as he arrives and learns about the engineering innovations developed by the Dutch people. This fiction book is paired with the nonfiction book, Building Dikes and Levees, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. Dikes and levees are created to help protect communities from rising floodwaters and hurricanes. With the rising temperatures of our planet, our sea and water side communities continue to be in harms way. Levees and dikes are traditionally made of earth. These engineering marvels keep our communities safe. Lead your readers through this well paired theme set to learn and discuss these geological ideas at work.
