Wanda's Watering Can / Water and My Garden

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 narrative book, Wanda’s Watering Can, young readers follow along as she counts her trips between the faucet and her prized plants. This fiction book is paired with the book, Water and My Garden, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book provides the basics of cause and effect for water and gardens through first person accounts, making gardening accessible to young readers. Inspire your young gardeners with this fun theme set.