Tad Goes Blueberry Picking / Subtracting with Shapes
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, Tad Goes Blueberry Picking, readers will follow Tad as he goes blueberry picking and practices counting. This fiction book is paired with the book Subtracting with Shapes. In this nonfiction book, favorite items such as cereal and building blocks are used to help readers deduce the number amount remaining after one of each is taken away. Help solidify number concepts in your readers through this well paired theme set.
