Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet Lesson Plan and Activities

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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction mentor text book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet A great story about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City to teach the origins of the holiday's celebrations.
Lessons and activities focus on:
- community
- summarizing key ideas
- describing character traits
- analysis of vocabulary words in a text through close reading
The lesson plans include:
- teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discuss
- printable prompts for student post-reading responses through discussion in writing or reading response logs
- 4-5 day plan
- Discussion questions
- Suggested discussion strategies
- Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading
- Anchor chart examples
- Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development
- Great for bilingual classrooms
- Printable worksheets for written responses in a reading log
How to Use This Resource:
- whole group
- small group
- as a reading intervention
- special education (SPED)
- bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
- with ELLs for ESL instruction
- Great for K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade
Your Kindergarten, first, second, or third grade students will love this story!
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