Emilio and the Baby Pig / Baby Farm Animals

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, Emilio and the Baby Pig, Emilio makes a new friend at the farm. Bright illustrations and descriptive text will help readers learn about where pigs can live and what baby pigs eat. This fiction book is paired with the book, Baby Farm Animals. In this nonfiction book, a piglet, a lamb, a chick, and a calf are some of the charming baby animals introduced to young readers. The sentence structure of each spread is repeated, first introducing the adult-animal term, then the young-animal term, helping to ease into new vocabulary. Introduce baby animals to your readers with this high-interest theme set.