Balloons Over Broadway Worksheets

by Melissa Sweet

Reading Level N · Lexile AD1000L · ATOS 5.4

The true story of Tony Sarg, a boy who loved to make things move and grew up to be a master puppeteer. When Macy's needed something spectacular for its Thanksgiving parade, he invented giant balloon puppets — and a clever way to make them rise into the sky.

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Balloons Over Broadway vocabulary words and comprehension questions

12 vocabulary words and 8 comprehension questions across 3 sections: Beginning · Middle · End.

Vocabulary words include marionette, chore, rigged, pulleys, immigrants, floats, dazzling, spectacular, articulate, helium, deflated, tethering.

Sample questions

What did Tony Sarg love to figure out as a boy?
How did Tony feed the chickens without getting out of bed?
What did Macy's first ask Tony to make?

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