My Camera / Darkness and Light
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 endearing fictional narrative, My Camera, readers follow along as a young girl captures her family moments on a camera, then, creates a photograph album of her favorite moments. This family and community based book will inspire your readers to think about how they would like to document their lives. This fiction book is paired with the book, Darkness and Light, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, the concepts of dark and light are explored. This elementary scientific idea unfolds through bright photographs and clear text. Help guide your readers through this theme set then perform some simple scientific experiments to solidify the ideas that are introduced.
