George's Banana / All About Bananas

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. The fiction book, George’s Banana, promotes mindful reading with a focus on understanding perspective and comparing and contrasting. In the non-fiction book, All About Bananas, the content supports the Next Generation Science Standards by promoting early scientific literacy. Engage your readers with this fantastic pairing about bananas.