Spider Builds a Web / A Spider's Web

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, Spider Builds a Web, shapes and the science of web building are explored. This fiction book is paired to the book, A Spider's Web, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This explanatory nonfiction book, provides domain-specific vocabulary used in describing a spider's habitat. The function of the web in the environment is shown with superb full-color photographs and close-ups that allow for the interpretation of evidence. Give your readers a close up on spiders and their amazing web building skills through this well paired theme set.