Jimmy is Not a Fish / We Breathe Air

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, Jimmy is not a Fish, Jimmy wants to be a fish, not a person, because the world of a fish is fascinating and mesmerizing. His family helps him understand how different fish are from humans, including that he just can't breathe underwater. Nonetheless, his father surprises Jimmy, and his imagination runs wild, underwater. This fiction book is paired with the book, We Breathe Air, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this important life science nonfiction book, children can make inferences and establish cause and effect through domain-specific vocabulary. With this well paired theme set, help readers discover amazing life science based facts about the human body.