Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction

Connect paired fiction and nonfiction texts to address similar themes across different genres.

Teacher Created Materials has designed a series that integrates fiction and nonfiction books for kids to explore essential questions, build literacy skills, and promote intertextual connections. Teachers guide students in close reading of carefully selected paired informational and literary texts. The lessons help maximize instructional time by correlating to college and career readiness standards.

Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction

Overview

This kit offers in-depth teacher lesson plans, assessments, and culminating tasks to explore essential questions and connect the five pairs of fiction and nonfiction texts found in each kit.

Engage readers with five fiction titles and five nonfiction titles (6 copies of each) in print and digital formats.
Minimize prep time with teacher lesson plans, student activity sheets, and assessments included in the Teacher's Guide.
Extend learning with digital resources including: PDFs of books, teacher resources, student activity sheets, professional audio recordings of the books, Interactiv-eBooks, supplemental images, audio and video.

Request More Information About This Series

Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction

Overview

Choose Level / Topic

Correlations to National, State, and Province Standards

Sharzer Associates Inc.

Contact