Gigi at the Golden Gate / Engineers Build Bridges
Rosen REAL Readers: STEM and STEAM Collection
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 fictional narrative, Gigi at the Golden Gate, Gigi is inspired by the Golden Gate bridge as her class is learning about engineering and bridges. She and her classmates get to build their own bridges, and see for themselves how certain designs can do great things. This fiction book is paired with the book, Engineers Build Bridges, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction STEAM book provides facts and explanatory text about how engineers work and how bridges function. It also focuses on the method of problem solving through the iterative process of engineering design. Inspire the future engineers in your classroom through this theme set about bridges.
