Harvest Day! / My Garden in the Fall

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, Harvest Day!, Sara helps readers understand that harvest day can be many days, depending on the vegetable or fruit, and the seasons of planting and ripening. Readers follow her as she goes throughout one harvest day on her family’s farm. Different vegetables are introduced along with their curing times. Winter comes, and as Sara enjoys a yummy bowl of squash soup, she celebrates her contribution in Fall. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Garden in Fall, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This first-person narrative nonfiction book, provides life science information from the point of view of a child taking care of his garden in a specific season. Inspire early readers through this well paired theme set about gardening.