Toy Box Trouble / In and Out
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, Toy Box Trouble, it's playtime and Max is taking stock of his toy box. Readers count along with the sequential text until Max finds the toy he is looking for. This fiction book is paired with the book, In and Out, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book provides scenarios for early readers to see these prepositions in action and to gain matter of their correct usage. Stimulate classroom conversation among early readers with this theme paring.
