Rabbit and Turtle / Hard and Soft

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. This fictional life science book, Rabbit and Turtle, describes a rabbit and a turtle and what they eat. Domain-specific vocabulary and tight picture-text correlation will help readers learn about these animals and their features. This fiction book is paired with the book, Hard and Soft. This nonfiction book compares and contrasts narrative uses ordinary objects like rocks and feathers to reinforce the physical states of hard and soft. Help readers solidify this beginning concept with this high-interest theme set.