The Pony Ride / Ponies and Horses

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 fictional narrative, The Pony Ride, readers count along with Sara as she takes a pony ride in a corral. This fiction book is paired with the book, Ponies and Horses, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, the differences between ponies and horses are examined in order to provide compare-and-contrast opportunities for early readers. Life science becomes as approachable as the ponies and horses with which the children interact in the book. Lead your readers in a discussion about ponies and horses through the subjects covered in this theme set.