At the Watering Hole / A Hippo's Home

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 fictional narrative, At the Watering Hole, a hippopotamus goes to a watering hole and sees many different animals. Explanatory text and colorful illustrations will help readers name and count all the animals the hippo encounters. This fiction book is paired with the book, A Hippo's Home. This nonfiction book follows the daily activities of hippos in their natural habitat. Entice your readers with this well paired set about hippos.