Farm Field Trip / My Farm

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 fictional narrative, Farm Field Trip, introduces basic math and technology concepts to a group of excited students that take a trip to a farm. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Farm, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book describes life on a farm from a child’s perspective, including daily chores such as feeding the animals and tending to the vegetables. Excite readers through this fun pairing about farms.