LEGO Reading Comprehension – ESL Writing Activity

Explore how LEGO can be used in learning through an English reading activity. Students answer comprehension questions and develop their own opinion in an essay.
Grades
Grades 7–9
Pages
3
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Aug 08, 2024

Subject
ELA, Reading Comprehension, Writing, ESL
Topic
LEGO, Education technology
Preparation
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity on LEGO

This ESL EFL TESOL Teaching Resource on LEGO (3 PDF Slides; Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity) can be ideal to train Language skills in English. Suitable participants for this ESL EFL TESOL Reading + Writing Activity are Foreign Students at middle and High School (7th-12th Grade; teens). Use this LEGO and education activity with intermediate to advanced ESL learners. This Teaching Educational Resource Product can also be ideal for ESL EFL Centers worldwide or any English second language tutor.

This ESL EFL TESOL Teaching Resource on LEGO (Worksheet; 3 PDF Printable slides) can be ideal for intermediate advanced English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners.

Within this ESL EFL TESOL Reading Comprehension + Essay Writing Activity Worksheet on LEGO it is offered:

  • 1 text on "LEGO"

  • 11 text-based Questions (with space for answers)

  • 1 Essay Writing Activity Prompt (writing an essay on your personal opinion on LEGO in Education; how it can improve learning, how it can be better that traditional teaching/learning methods and writing if you have ever tried it)

This ESL, EFL, TESOL Teaching Resource Reading + Writing Activity on LEGO (3 PDF Printable Slides) is great for Intermediate-Advanced English as a second or foreign language learners (ESL- EFL). This English Second Language Worksheet on LEGO aims to train and Reading Comprehension + Writing Skills.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words (e.g., versatility, innovative, passionate, hands-on) using context from the passage.

  • Answer comprehension questions by locating and restating information directly from the text.

  • Write a personal-opinion essay that takes and argues a position using evidence and experience.

Teaching tips

  • Preview vocabulary such as versatility, camaraderie, and hands-on before assigning the passage, since several questions test these words directly.

  • Use the true/false evidence question ("LEGO allows student understand difficult concepts") as a quick check that students can support an answer from the text before assigning the full essay.

  • Set a length or paragraph expectation for the closing essay, since the prompt links several open questions rather than one narrow topic.

Skills covered

  • Vocabulary in context — students define words like "versatility" and "passionate" and produce synonyms for "innovative" using the passage.

  • Reading comprehension — students answer 11 text-based questions drawing directly on details from the LEGO passage.

  • Opinion essay writing — the closing prompt has students state and defend a personal position on hands-on learning.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does the passage focus only on STEM, or does it cover language learning too?

Both — the reading pages cover LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO Technic, and the FIRST LEGO League competition, then shift to how teachers use LEGO for ESL vocabulary and storytelling.

Is the closing writing task a short response or a full essay?

A full essay — the prompt links several questions (personal opinion on hands-on learning, whether it suits STEM or language learning, and personal experience with LEGO) into one connected piece of writing.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • RI.8.1
  • W.8.1

Core concepts

  • Reading comprehension

  • Vocabulary in context

  • Opinion writing

  • ESL/EFL

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