Bear Wakes Up / All About Bears

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 life science narrative, Bear Wakes Up, winter is almost over, and soon Bear will wake up. Colorful illustrations and explanatory text will help readers learn why bears hibernate. This fiction book is paired with the book, All About Bears. The giant grizzly bear is the focus of this nonfiction book. Readers learn about its habitat, way of life, and the various shapes of a bear's features, such as large round ears. Excite early readers with this lively pairing about bears.