Balloons over Broadway - Melissa Sweet

Balloons Over Broadway - Melissa Sweet

Informational book - Sibert Award Winner 2012

Selling tool -

Activity - Students will learn about the Macy’s Day Parade and the man behind the floats Tony Starg, students will then learn how to plan and build their own model balloons as a team to hang around the library in time for Thanksgiving.

Standard - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 -

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

Goal - To be able to use the details from the text to understand the life of the main character, but also to understand the creativity behind the floats created.

Objective - Students will demonstrate a complete understanding of the text by working with their peers to create their own floats.

Outcome - Students will present their floats to each other and be able to explain why they chose what they did.

References -

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/5/#CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.8

https://www.teachingbooks.net/media/pdf/YHBA/BalloonsOverBroadway.pdf

Giant Squid by Candace Fleming

Title: Giant Squid

Author: Candace Fleming

Illustrator: Eric Rohmann

Lexile: 990L

For this Sibert Informational Book, students would be exploring the wonder of one of the deep sea’s most elusive creatures, the giant squid.

For this learning activity, students will have to investigate facts about the giant squid. They will conduct web searches and use resources, like this National Geographic site, to brainstorm at least 3 questions they have about giant squid habits, behaviors, conservation efforts, etc.

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.2.C Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. CCSS

Goals: Students will be able to create inferences and questions from an informational text.

Objectives: Students will research the giant squid using online resources

Students will be able to develop and construct 3 relevant, focused questions on the topic.

Outcomes: Students will have developed a more thorough knowledge of the giant squid, and will have follow-up questions for future use. 

Sell tool: https://blackboard.albany.edu/courses/1/2179-IIST-571-7890/db/_3968962_1/embedded/Learn%20about%20what%20lies%20beneath.pdf