Aunt Su Saves the Turtles / My Aunt is a Scientist

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, Aunt Su Saves the Turtles, readers will be intrigued by how science is used to save animals. They'll follow along as Aunt Su, the scientist, goes about saving the day for a few lucky turtles. This fiction book is paired to the book, My Aunt is a Scientist, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This narrative nonfiction book, demonstrates problem solving as well as scenarios for evaluating evidence, which illustrates the scientific process. Inspire your readers about the scientific method through this well paired theme set.