Balloons Over Broadway Book Companion with Book Review Pennant

The book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet is a wonderful story to share with your students this Thanksgiving season. This picture book companion comes with a variety of tools to engage your students and help you maximize teachable moments as you explore this text.

Included you will find fun resources that will help you work with your students on making predictions, text structure, setting, main idea, making connections, vocabulary, and more! In addition, you will also receive 12 writing prompts, exit tickets, and a short quiz that include a variety of text-dependent questions and ideas for you and your students to explore.

I have include a wealth of activities for you to choose from. Choose the ones that work best for you and your students!

Use to Teach the Following Concepts

• Making Predictions
• Inferencing
• Main Idea and Details
• Theme
• Sequencing
• Summarizing
• Setting
• Characterization
• Making Connections
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Vocabulary
• AND MORE

Resources and Activities Included

1. Design a Balloon
2. Who Was Tony Sarg
3. Compare and Contrast (parade in 1924 with parade today)
4. Through the Years (changes in the parade through the decades)
5. Parade Music (students select songs to be played during the parade)
6. My Story Predictions
7. Making Predictions (make predictions based on what has been read so far)
8. Listen and Draw
9. Story Elements (character, setting, conflict, resolution)
10. 2 Story Maps
11. Sequencing (beginning, middle, end)
12. What’s the Story About (main idea and details)
13. List of Picture Book Themes
14. Identifying Theme and Supporting Evidence
15. Balloons Over Broadway (who, what, where, when, why, how)
16. Drawing the Setting
17. Describing the Setting
18. Main Idea and Story Summary
19. A Lot of Character (identifying character traits)
20. Making Connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world)
21. Making Connections (the text says, this reminds me of)
22. Facts and Questions
23. The Best Part
24. Problem Identification and Writing
25. Problem and Solution
26. Sequence of Events (first, next, then, last)
27. Book Summary Writing
28. Book Summary Organizer (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)
29. 12 Writing Prompts (4 opinion, 4 narrative, 4 informative)
30. Balloons Over Broadway Themed Writing Paper
31. Straight from the Text
32. 2 Cause and Effect (1 filled in and 1 blank)
33. Character Response
34. Reader’s Response
35. Picture This Vocabulary
36. 4 Word Study Activities
37. Cover Artist (design a new cover for the book)
38. Book Critic (your thoughts on the book)
39. 3 Thoughtful Exit Tickets
40. Balloons Over Broadway Comprehension Questions
41. Book Review Pennant Craft

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