The Montgolfier Brothers: Balloon Flight CLUES-in-CONTEXT Rebus - SimpleLitRebus

Sequencing Practice! Context Clues! A REBUS that is an INFORMATIONAL TEXT about the first balloon flight! Also get discussion questions, a crossword puzzle, a word search, writing prompt, and three differentiated TESTS!

This CLUES-in-CONTEXT rebus is about the Montgolfier brothers who invented balloon flight. But students can’t complete reading the rebus until they place eight words found below the word pictures into the rebus correctly. This exercise can be done on paper or in a web-based classroom!

Here is what is included in this download:

• Informational text rebus (fill-in-the blank and the full rebus)
• Discussion questions
• Four writing exercises (reflection, creative, comparison, and research)
• Crossword puzzle
• Word search
• Balloon card craft
• A link to a science experiment and a corresponding worksheet
• Twelve task cards
• Match Game
• Three differentiated quizzes

In a traditional classroom: Students can complete each activity and turn it in.

On an iPad or in a web-based classroom: Using the Easel platform by Teachers Pay Teachers, which is free to all teachers, this download becomes an online activity for a literature and history or science lesson. Send students the pages that you want them to complete using the Easel platform. Then students can access the rebus, quiz, writing prompt, and crossword puzzle.

To work on the rebus, they can move the words below each word picture to the appropriate gray rectangle and then send you the assignment. They can complete the crossword puzzle, mark the quiz, and respond to the writing prompt. Then all they have to do is submit it. It’s that simple.

This curriculum works great in literature circles and science or history classes. In addition to helping students place a mixture of words in the context of a story and in the right sequence, this informational reading passage teaches about the French inventors Joseph-Michael and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier.

Would you like a free sample rebus to see how well it would work in your classroom? Find a rebus at Simple Literature Book Club Flyer for Kids. Up to eight different rebus stories are included, one rebus per month, each school year!

The Montgolfier Brothers: Balloon Flight, a Clues-in-Context Rebus - Nonfiction is ©2021 Simple Literature. Parents and teachers may reproduce the activities in this Simple Literature product for personal use in public, private, or home-school classrooms or for their families. No part of this manuscript and curricula may be included in printed, web, digital, or any form of print, web, digital, cloud, or electronic curricula, or distributed, personally, electronically, via the cloud, or commercially without the express written permission of Simple Literature. All rights reserved. First printing, 2021