A Seed's Story / Seeds and Soil

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, A Seed’s Story, Callie has a garden that explains the life cycle of plants. She has all the tools she needs, especially the seeds. Callie plants the seeds and waters them. The seeds sprout and push up through the dirt. Soon Callie has a beautiful garden filled with plants. This fiction book is paired with the book, Seeds and Soil, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book is a hands-on descriptive book about life processes. This book provides age-appropriate information on the basis of how plants grow and the conditions needed for a plant to thrive. Feed your early readers’ minds with this science based pairing about seeds.