Racing Day / My Toy Boat

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, Racing Day, Stan has a plan to build a boat with his dad and race it. The bright illustrations and key details will make readers excited to learn who wins the race. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Toy Boat, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, follow a family as they discover how a toy boat floats through activities, charts, diagrams, and infographics. Discover new excitement in readers as they learn new things about boats and racing with this theme set.