Lia's Big Job / I Help on Our Farm
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, Lia’s Big Job, Lia lives on a farm and helps her mother take care of it. Colorful illustrations and descriptive text will help readers follow along as Lia helps her mother throughout the day and the year. Readers will learn how peas are grown from seeds and how people can grow their own dinner. This fiction book is paired with the book, I Help on Our Farm. In this nonfiction book, readers follow a young girl as she helps feed cows and do chores on a farm. This theme set pairing is an ideal to introduce early readers to farm life and cooperation.
