The Worm Hunt / All About Soil
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 this endearing fictional narrative, Worm Hunt, in this life science based fictional narrative, readers discover the wiggly world of worms. This book provides emerging readers the chance to experience science based ideas at their ability level. Simple, repetitive text builds word recognition skills and reading confidence while providing information about a fun subject. This fiction book is paired with the nonfiction book, All About Soil, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book discuses soil which varies widely, 70,000 different kinds exist. According to the Audubon, 1 tablespoon of soil has more organisms in it that there are people on earth. Guide your readers to discover facts about soil and its inhabitants, with this theme set.
