In Uncle Bill's Shop / My Uncle Fixes Machines

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, Ted visits his uncle Bill. Explanatory text and bright illustrations will help readers learn alongside Ted about different kinds of watches and how they work. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Uncle Fixes Machines. In this nonfiction book, a factory with a lot of working and non-working parts is the setting of this explanatory narrative. Readers will learn that metals rust and machines stop working. There are people who fix the machines using tools and know-how. Inspire early readers with this well paired theme set.