One, Two, At the Zoo! / Adding with Animals

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, One, Two, At the Zoo!, Jim and his grandpa visit the zoo. Bright illustrations and key details will help readers with word recognition through their familiarity of common zoo animals. Readers count along with Jim as he sees different animals at the zoo. This fiction book is paired with the book, Adding with Animals. From five tiny ants to big, beautiful horses, this count-along nonfiction book, teaches readers to count the animals they see. Help arm your readers with this theme set about animals, math, and counting.