Field Trip Day / Our Bus Trip

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, Field Trip Day, students go on a field trip to the science museum. While at the museum, they build and race cars. Bright illustrations and domain-specific vocabulary will help readers learn about what a science museum has to offer. This fiction book is paired with the book, Our Bus Trip, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, readers trace what it’s like to ride on the school bus. Excite your readers through this clever theme set about bus trips.