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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
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.
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In the Classroom

  1. High-interest, appropriately leveled content.
  2. Variety of text types.
  3. Opportunities for whole-group, small-group, and independent practice.
  4. Text-dependent activity questions.

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Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction: Level 1 Kit

Grade: 1 $549.99
ISBN: 9781493809172

Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction: Level 1 Kit

Grade: 1

  • Lexile: BR-470L
  • Guided Reading Level: A-H
  • Interest Level: K-3
  • ISBN: 9781493809172

Price: $549.99

Bring together 5 pairs of fiction and nonfiction readers with this unique kit! This kit provides teachers with full lesson plans for teaching each title and connecting each fiction/nonfiction pair.

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Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction: Level 2 Kit

Grade: 2 $569.99
ISBN: 9781493809189

Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction: Level 2 Kit

Grade: 2

  • Lexile: 320L-690L
  • Guided Reading Level: I-L
  • Interest Level: 1-4
  • ISBN: 9781493809189

Price: $569.99

Pair together 5 fiction and 5 nonfiction titles that share important educational themes with this Purposeful Pairs Level 2 complete kit! This kit provides teachers with full lesson plans for teaching each title and connecting each fiction/nonfiction pair.

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Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction: Level 3 Kit

Grade: 3 $599.99
ISBN: 9781493809196

Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction: Level 3 Kit

Grade: 3

  • Lexile: 420L-890L
  • Guided Reading Level: N-Q
  • Interest Level: 2-5
  • ISBN: 9781493809196

Price: $599.99

This Purposeful Pairs Level 3 complete kit pairs together 5 fiction and 5 nonfiction titles that share important educational themes and provides teachers with full lesson plans for teaching each title and connecting each fiction/nonfiction pair.

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