Building a Home for Chick / Nuts and Bolts

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, Building a Home for Chick, Toby and his mom decide to build a doghouse for their pet dog, Chick. Domain-specific vocabulary and bright illustrations will help readers to follow along with Toby and his exciting activity. This fiction book is paired with the book, Nuts and Bolts. In this nonfiction book, readers start with a small screw and end with the nuts and bolts of a bicycle, readers are taken on a journey into the world of fasteners, their uses, and their tools. Introduce the early concept of part and whole to your readers with this well paired theme set.