Sick Day / We Can Read a Thermometer

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, Sick Day, the thermometer shows that Chad has a fever. His grandmother explains temperature and degrees to him as he takes a sick day. He learns about thermometers, including outside thermometers, and how they work. This fiction book is paired with the book, We Can Read a Thermometer, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This narrative nonfiction book shows how a key technological tool is used to measure, interpret, and evaluate. Show your readers how thermometers are used everyday in this science based theme set.