Beth's Butterfly Garden / Flowers in My Garden

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, Beth’s Butterfly Garden, readers will learn about the tools and steps required to create a garden, which also happens to attract Beth's favorite insect. This fiction book is paired with the book, Flowers in My Garden, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, basic life science information about gardening is provided. Close text-photograph correlation helps emerging readers navigate a first-person narrative account of how a garden is planted. Inspire your readers to become gardeners themselves by inspiring them with this theme set about gardens.