Jaevon's Big Dig / Rocks and Minerals Are Solids
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 fictional narrative, Jaevon’s Big Dig, Jaevon shows readers that there is a world of magic beneath our feet. The rock cycle is explained through mathematical concepts, as readers count along with Jaevon. He ends up with a nice collection of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. This fiction book is paired with the book, Rocks and Minerals Are Solids, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction descriptive book introduces core information about rocks and minerals, providing opportunities for compare and contrast, as well as cause and effect within the Earth science curriculum. Inspire your readers with this fantastic theme set about rocks and minerals.
