A Playground Adventure / The Slide at School
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, A Playground Adventure, concepts of math are combined in this fun trip to the playground. Bright illustrations and key details will help readers count along with the main character all the things he encounters at the playground. This fiction book is paired with the book, The Slide at School, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, readers count the number of kids playing on the school slides in this informational text about math and playtime. Math will be fun for readers when learning about it through this theme set about playgrounds.
