Marco's New Friend / Our Class Goldfish
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. The fictional narrative, Marco’s New Friend, describes a favorite household pet and its features. Marco the goldfish meets a new friend and discovers his friend is just like he is. Descriptive text structure and bright illustrations will help readers with word recognition. This fiction book is paired with the book, Our Class Goldfish. In this nonfiction book, a fish is introduced to young readers, through the guise of life science. Excite your readers about life science with this theme set about fish.
