Paula's Pinecone / Pinecones

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 narrative book, Paul’s Pinecone, readers go on a nature walk with Paula through this sequential narrative. Paula stumbles across various items, and counts how many of each that she finds. She takes a very close look at pinecones, including finding the seeds. This fiction book is paired with the book, Pinecones, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book provides young readers with a mental picture of the scientific stages of a pinecone’s life. Engage your readers with this exciting pairing about pinecones.