Book Summary
Have you ever seen beautiful hot-air balloons floating through the sky? Did you ever wonder how they fly or how the big balloons are steered? Learn the answers to these questions and many more in an interview format with balloonist Dan Saul. Sidebars provide more information for the reader. Photographs support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand the text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate variant vowel /oo/
• Identify and use adjectives
• Practice alphabetizing

Materials

• Book -- I Fly Hot-Air Balloons (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, variant /oo/ vowel, adjectives worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: fuel, nylon, oxygen, satellites, scenery