Yuki and the Well / Engineers Work with Pulleys
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, Yuki and the Well, Yuki and her mother are working in the garden, and it's time to water the plants. Yuki learns the technology behind a well and how to use it. This fiction book is paired with the book, Engineers Work With Pulleys, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This photo-illustrated nonfiction descriptive book gives STEAM opportunities to students to learn principles of force and motion, as well as providing examples of the creative approaches engineers use to solve problems. Excite readers with this theme set about physics.
