Jamal's Wagon / Push and Pull

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, Jamal’s Wagon, readers follow along as Jamal learns about how to pull and push the wagon. Bright illustrations will engage your readers as they follow along while Jamal’s journey unfolds. This book introduces line breaks and dialogue while simple, repetitive text builds word recognition skills and reading confidence. This fiction book is paired with the book, Push and Pull, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, readers comprehend a basic concept of physics, and can practice this idea through daily activities in the world. Invigorate the young scientist in your classroom through this well paired theme set.