Paul's Sneakers / Old and New
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, Paul’s Sneakers, readers follow illustrations and key vocabulary as Paul goes to the store with his mother and gets new sneakers. This fiction book is paired with the book, Old and New. In this nonfiction book, readers get up close and personal view about how old technology developed and how it informed new technology. Give your readers an understanding about how the old informs the new in this well paired theme set.
