Bo's Seed Pot / Potters Use Clay

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 Seed Pot, art and math concepts are woven into an intriguing story about the Hopi Indians. Bob creates his own work of functional art, based on Hopi design. What he uses it for, readers soon find out, and it will make them want to build their own. This fiction book is paired with the book, Potters Use Clay, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This beautiful STEAM nonfiction book, shows the intersection between art and physical science, providing evidence of the process by which raw material is utilized to make art. The temperatures of a kiln and the subsequent cause and effect are also described. Inspire your budding artists with this paired theme set about pottery and the cultural references behind this ancient art form.