The Windy Day / Weather Vanes
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, The Windy Day, Amos introduces what a weathervane is, and how it interacts with wind. Readers learn about directions, and how wind coming from certain directions mean certain things. This fiction book is paired with the book, Weather Vanes, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book, provides children with insight into a key STEAM function involving inventions and engineering design. Using the scientific method of observation, readers learn about tools of measurement and cause and effect. Inspire future engineers with this theme set about weather vanes.
