The Thundercloud Cookies / It's Cloudy
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, The Thundercloud Cookies, Joe's mom helps him understand how clouds and thunder are created while they make some cookies. Through this bonding experience with his mom, Joe realizes storms aren't that scary after all. This fiction book is paired with the book, It's Cloudy, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, facts about clouds, weather, and the sky illustrate cause and effect and provide insight into patterns in nature. Provide your readers with science based information about storms through this well paired theme set.
