Teresa's Construction Challenge / Building a House with Lego

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 this descriptive fictional narrative, Teresa shows how to plan and build an arts and crafts project. Key details and colorful illustrations will help emerging readers count along with the character as she builds a house. This fiction book is paired with the book, Building a House with Lego. In this nonfiction book, sequential text uses the favorite toy, Legos, to introduce math and engineering concepts. Readers follow along as a little girl plans and counts out the blocks she's using to create a house. Inspire the engineers and architects in your readers through this theme set.