Mr. Tan Has a Plan / A Career Day with an Engineer

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, Mr. Tan Has a Plan, colorful illustrations and key vocabulary will help readers follow along as Jim is inspired by Mr. Tan, the engineer, to learn about how to build boats that float. He and his classmates get to build their own boats and see for themselves how well they'll actually float. This fiction book is paired with the book, A Career Day with an Engineer. This nonfiction explanatory book, covers many types of engineers, including biomedical, electrical, and environmental. Inspire the future engineers in your readers through this theme set about the discipline and variations within the field of engineering.