Bo's Sand Castle / Sand Castles

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, Bo’s Sand Castle, concepts of counting and building are combined in this fun trip to the beach. Bright illustrations and key details will help readers learn the steps of building and decorating a sand castle. This fiction book is paired with the book, Sand Castles for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book shows readers how to create a masterpiece from sand and found objects. Inspire your readers to create art with sand through this well paired theme set about sand castles.