Baby Duck and the Wolf / Frances Writes a Fable

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, Baby Duck and the Wolf, baby duck gets lost and encounters all kinds of creatures. Readers will learn not to judge a book by its cover, as this tale ends well because of a helping hand from the Wolf. This fiction book is paired to the book, Frances Writes a Fable, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. In this nonfiction book, Frances shares how she creates a fable, providing the key elements of the cultural perspective and literary language inherent in such a work. Help your readers learn about different genres through this theme set about fables.