Quack's Family Fun / A Family of Ducks
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 life science narrative book, Quack’s Family Fun, describes the sequence of events of a family of ducks on their trip to the pond. Colorful illustrations and explanatory text will teach readers that ducks like to swim as well as what helps them do so. This fiction book is paired with the nonfiction book, A Family of Ducks, which introduces some basic concepts of life science. Help to create science enthusiasts with this theme set about ducks.
