A Smelly Surprise / All About Skunks
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 fiction book, A Smelly Surprise, promotes background knowledge and a wider range of vocabulary. In the non-fiction book, All About Skunks, science content is made engaging, exciting, and accessible. Encourage discussion about stinks and smells through this well paired theme set.