Nasim Counts With Crayons / Counting With Crayons

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, Nasim Counts With Crayons, a boy draws a beautiful picture. Descriptive text and tight picture-text correlation will help readers identify numbers and objects drawn with specific colors. Readers will count along as Nasim adds different objects to his picture. This fiction book is paired with the book, Counting with Crayons, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, readers will be inspired to solidify their number knowledge through activities and diagrams. Help your readers with their early number concepts through this theme set pairing about counting.