Ruby and the Ring Rescue / Jewelers Use Gems
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, Ruby and the Ring Rescue, sisters Lisa and Ruby have a huge problem to solve. Lisa dropped her mother's very special ring in a grate. Lisa watches as Ruby tries different techniques and home-made tools to get the ring. This fiction book is paired with the book, Jewelers Use Gems, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This descriptive nonfiction STEAM book emphasizes how art and science go hand in hand and provides cross-curricular opportunities for instruction in both Earth science and art. Guide your readers through this interesting theme set about art and science.
