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Use Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Award-winning author Melissa Sweet brings the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to life in this informational book about Tony Sarg and his marionettes.

Reading about Tony Sarg, an incredibly talented man who introduced helium balloons to the Macy's Parade, will compel children to ask questions, find answers, and summarize the information. Beautiful illustrations and captions throughout the story support readers as they retell the events. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on exploring the past tense of verbs along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.
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Asking Questions with Balloons Over Broadway

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Asking Questions with Balloons Over Broadway

Generating questions for this story will come naturally to all readers. Many children already know about the Macy's Parade, but as they read this book, they will realize there is a great deal to wonder about with this extraordinary parade.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • W.3.8L.3.6RI.3.1RI.3.4RI.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4SL.3.1cSL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.13H3.7D3.7E3.1A3.7F3.1C3.7G3.1D3.9D(i)3.1E3.9D(ii)3.6A3.9D(iii)3.6B3.13A3.6I3.13C3.7B3.13E3.7C
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Determining Importance with Balloons Over Broadway

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Determining Importance with Balloons Over Broadway

With all of the information author Melissa Sweet sifted through to discover the most important details for this fascinating story, how did she determine what was important? Why did she craft noteworthy illustrations to share the intriguing facts? Children will determine what is important to remember by considering this beautifully told story of Tony Sarg and the Macy's Parade.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3W.3.8RI.3.2L.3.6RI.3.5RI.3.6RI.3.7RI.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.9D(i)3.6E3.9D(ii)3.6G3.9D(iii)3.6I3.10A3.7A3.13A3.7B3.13C3.1A3.7C3.13E3.1C3.7D3.13H3.1D3.7E3.1E3.7F3.6A3.7G3.6B
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Balloons Over Broadway

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Balloons Over Broadway

Intriguing illustrations and creative captions guide children to understanding the author's purpose for including these amazing features in a brilliant way. Children will want to spend time soaking in every aspect of Melissa Sweet's talent; realizing her craft is quite entertaining and informative.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.3.2RI.3.4RI.3.7RI.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4SL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3W.3.8L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.7D3.10D3.1A3.7E3.10F3.1C3.7F3.13C3.1D3.7G3.13E3.1E3.8C3.13H3.6A3.9D(i)3.6B3.9D(ii)3.6I3.9D(iii)3.7A3.10A3.7B3.10B3.7C3.10C
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Making Inferences with Balloons Over Broadway

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Balloons Over Broadway offers readers a chance to make an inference about some of the events that happened in the story. With background knowledge and information from the book, children will feel comfortable inferring what is not directly stated in the text.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4SL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3W.3.8L.3.6RI.3.1RI.3.4RI.3.7
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.1D3.7F3.1E3.7G3.6A3.9D(i)3.6B3.9D(ii)3.6F3.9D(iii)3.6I3.13C3.7A3.13E3.7B3.13H3.7C3.1A3.7D3.1C3.7E
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Retelling & Summarizing with Balloons Over Broadway

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Retelling & Summarizing with Balloons Over Broadway

After reading this engaging story, children will most certainly share the story with someone at home. Get them ready to give a book talk by working with the retelling and summarizing lessons in this guide.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.3.6RI.3.2RL.3.4RI.3.7RI.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4SL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3W.3.8
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.7E3.1A3.7F3.1C3.7G3.1D3.8D3.1E3.9D(i)3.6A3.9D(ii)3.6G3.9D(iii)3.6I3.13C3.7B3.13E3.7C3.13H3.7D
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Parts of Speech with Balloons Over Broadway

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Parts of Speech with Balloons Over Broadway

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how adding -ed to verbs is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.3.3RF.3.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Balloons Over Broadway

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Vocabulary Connections with Balloons Over Broadway

This set of vocabulary development resources for Balloons Over Broadway highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.3.4aL.3.5bL.3.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.7E3.7F3.3A3.3B
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Running Record with Balloons Over Broadway

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Running Record with Balloons Over Broadway

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Balloons Over Broadway. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Cause and Effect Matching with Balloons Over Broadway

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Cause and Effect Matching with Balloons Over Broadway

Read Balloons Over Broadway then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Balloons Over Broadway. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Balloons Over Broadway

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Balloons Over Broadway

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Balloons Over Broadway includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
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Drawing with Balloons Over Broadway

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Drawing with Balloons Over Broadway

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Asking Questions with Balloons Over Broadway (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with Balloons Over Broadway (Spanish)

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Balloons Over Broadway (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Balloons Over Broadway (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Balloons Over Broadway (Spanish)

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Drawing with Balloons Over Broadway (Spanish)

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Title: Balloons Over Broadway
Author: Melissa Sweet
Genre: Biography, Nonfiction
Themes: History, Perseverance, STEAM / STEM, Thanksgiving, Self Management, Growth Mindset, Fall
ISBN: 9780547199450
Publisher's Summary:
Meet the master puppeteer who invented the first balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Melissa Sweet brings to life the inspirational story of the puppeteer who invented the giant balloons floating in the sky during the annual parade celebrating Thanksgiving. The Caldecott Honor artist brilliantly captures the essence of Tony Sarg, a self-taught immigrant with a fascinating imagination.
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