First Grade Fun / My Stepmom is a Teacher

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, First Grade Fun, Priya is ready for her first day of first grade. She counts how many students she already knows, and how many students she does not know. She tours the school, learning all it has to offer and she even runs into her stepmother, who teaches Art. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Stepmom is a Teacher, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book, explores the workday of a young boy’s stepmom as she teaches in her classroom. The narrative provides many opportunities for teaching about the members of a community. Help to reflect readers own stories about school with this endearing theme set about school.