Block Builders: Plan, Solve, Connect

Three seventh graders have five days to rebuild an ancient Roman town in a block-building game for history class, and not everything goes to plan. Middle schoolers sort the details that matter, read how a teammate feels during an argument, weigh pros and cons, tap the sentence that shows the group's compromise, decide what to do when a stranger in a public game asks personal questions, sort what's safe to share online, join ideas with and, but, or and so, match prefix words to their meanings, and finish with a prefix word search. Every passage and question has a read-aloud button, and wrong answers get a hint.

• 14 scenes with read-aloud passages and questions
• Two drag-and-drop sorts and a conjunction word bank
• Text-evidence highlighting and prefix matching
• Prefix word search finale

• Tell details that matter to a task from details that don't
• Weigh pros and cons and choose a solution that works for everyone
• Cite the sentence that shows how characters solved a disagreement
• Join two ideas with and, but, or or so
• Use the prefixes re-, un-, pre- and mis- to work out word meanings
• Decide what is safe to share in a game chat and what to do when a stranger asks for more