Balloons Over Broadway activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Balloons Over Broadway Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Melissa Sweet’s book. Read aloud the November picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: ◼️ READING STRATEGIES ☐ summarizing and retelling ☐ analyzing character ☐ analyzing setting ☐ making connections ☐ identifying genre ☐ identifying the main idea ☐ cause and effect   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ perseverance and grit ☐ problem-solving   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ action verbs ☐ proper nouns ☐ adjectives ☐ punctuation   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Balloons Over Broadway tells the true story of Tony Sarg, the original puppeteer of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Even when he was a young child, Tony enjoyed making and creating things. As he grew up, he started to make marionettes when he noticed people were