Rosa's Painting / Wet and Dry

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 fictional narrative, Rosa’s Painting, Rosa loves painting and she is ready to make a new masterpiece. She counts her brushes, sets out all her tools, and adds water to get the colors she needs. This fiction book is paired with the book, Wet and Dry, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, the compare-and-contrast text structure used in this title provides emerging readers with fundamental information about the physical world and how it works. Inspire works of art from your readers through this creatively paired theme set.