At School with Aisha / My Brother's Class

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, At School with Aisha, a classic children's' tale is at the center of this imaginative romp into engineering and technology. Don goes with his big sister Aisha to her class for the day. Readers will love finding the answer to the question posed in the book. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Brother's Class, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book about the shape of the Earth, readers are offered opportunities to explore shapes, colors, and basic Earth science. Entice your readers with this interesting theme set about how children learn in school.