Rick Gets a Cast / The Bones in Our Body

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 descriptive fictional narrative, Rick Gets a Cast, Rick has an accident on the monkey bars and hurts his arm. Colorful illustrations and key details will help readers follow Rick as he gets an X-ray of his arm and learns about his bones. This fiction book is paired with the book, The Bones in Our Body. In this nonfiction book, the various bones of the human body are defined and explored after an introduction to the skeleton is provided. This life science based theme set will inspire readers as they learn about the bones of the body.