At Work with My Dads / My Mom Works with Technology

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, At Work with my Dads, Emma and her class go on a school trip to her dads' print shop to learn how printers work. In this fictional narrative, explanatory text and colorful illustrations will help readers learn about the many special things printers make. This fiction book is paired with the book, My Mom Works with Technology. In this nonfiction book, all the elements necessary to build a presentation are explained in this sequential text about a child's mother who works at a hotel. Help your readers think about their caregiver’s careers through this thought provoking theme set.