The Truck Parade / My Dad's Truck
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 fiction book, The Truck Parade, Tim and his dad are in the truck parade. Readers will be helped with word recognition through their familiarity with vehicles and the tight picture-text correlation. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Dad's Truck. In this nonfiction book, readers learn about trucks through bright color photographs, pronunciation guide, and diagrams. Your readers will enjoy these books about this high-interest subject.
