Books in Rosen Real Readers: Stem and Steam Collection series

Information about the familiar carrot helps build vocabulary and content knowledge about how vegetables grow. This descriptive life science title provides an example of cause and effect with strong visual information.

This sequential text explains that grapes are fruit, how they grow, and which kinds there are that children can enjoy. Photographs of different children relay each fact to the reading audience. A picture-word glossary is included.

This first-person account of caring for a garden and growing a tomato plant provides strong cause-and-effect evidence using a sequential text structure.

This compare and contrast narrative reinforces the concept of speed by introducing objects and animals that are fast and slow. A picture-word glossary is included.

A factory with a lot of working and non-working parts is the setting of this explanatory narrative. Readers will learn that metals rust and machines stop working. There are people who fix the machines using tools and know-how. A picture-word glossary is included.

This informational text provides many opportunities to build domain-specific vocabulary and to introduce some basic concepts of life science and earth science.

This sequential text uses the favorite toy, Legos, to introduce math and engineering concepts. Readers follow along as a little girl plans and counts out the blocks she's using to create a house. A picture-word glossary is included.

The growth cycle of a carrot is explained as Pedro gets to plant his favorite vegetable. With a little hard work and supplying the right conditions, his crop comes to fruition. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title "All About Carrots" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.

This life science title provides kids with a front-row seat to see the sequence of events in the growth of a potato, from seed to vegetable.

This important life science title provides domain-specific vocabulary with which children can make inferences and establish cause-and-effect relationships.

Readers follow Badger as he figures out how to create a perfect home. It has to be in just the right place with the right conditions, using the right tools to create it. This fiction title is paired to the nonfiction title "A Badger's Burrow" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.

This nonfiction text explains the technology, design, and uses of the tractor.