Helping Dad / Dad's Toolbox

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 this fictional narrative, Helping Dad, Shana helps her dad build a bookshelf for her room and learns the importance of helping out. Using sequential text and colorful illustrations, this book provides key details to help readers follow along as Shana and her dad build a bookshelf from beginning to end. This fiction book is paired with the book, Dad's Toolbox. In this nonfiction book, the narrator's father is a construction worker, but home-repair and building a birdhouse are also detailed as the various uses of the toolbox. Tools such as the hammer, tape measure, and screwdriver are explained. Help early readers identify tools and how to use them through this theme set.