Building Toys and Making Connections 6-Pack

Learn how LEGO engineers use their creativity and technical skills to create ideas for new toys! This 6-Pack of nonfiction text cards is part of Culturally Authentic and Responsive Texts, a collection curated by Dr. Sharroky Hollie. Each text in this collection builds literacy while engaging seventh grade students in meaningful cultural connections.

Building Toys and Making Connections explores how life events shape people as they grow up. This fascinating nonfiction text allows students to see their lives reflected in the materials they are studying, while the accompanying lesson and activities help develop literacy skills.

• Focuses on themes and concepts culminating from previous units
• Asks students to consider the effect careers have on people’s lives
• Strengthens content-area literacy and vocabulary by defining unfamiliar words and terms
• Includes discussion questions, a writing prompt, and a creative activity

This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a content-area focused lesson plan.