Squirrel Gets Ready / Squirrels and Nuts
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, Squirrel Gets Ready, readers meet a lovable squirrel as she is getting ready for the encroaching winter. She gathers up her food supply and counts each item along the way. This fiction book is paired with the book, Squirrels and Nuts, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book provides age-appropriate information about squirrels and their habitat as well as details about their food foraging, food storing, and eating habits. Inspire science and math based discussion in your readers through this well paired theme set.
