Tina and the Turkeys / All About Turkeys

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, Tina and the Turkeys, the bright illustrations and domain-specific vocabulary will help readers follow along as Tina discovers turkeys in her backyard. She uses technology to research turkeys and learn something new. This fiction book is paired with the book, All About Turkeys, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, the life cycle of a turkey and its habitat are introduced to young readers. Each page conveys a new concept in reverse sequence, from grown turkey to hatchling. Your readers will delight in the information gathered from this theme set pairing about turkeys.