A Sukkah on the Balcony
A short story about Ella and her family, who build a sukkah on the balcony of their Tel Aviv apartment and decorate it.
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1Ella lives in an in Tel Aviv. The family has no garden, so every year they build their sukkah on the .
2This year, Ella and her little brother Ben make the . They cut paper in red, yellow and green. Mom and the children's drawings.
3On the first night of Sukkot, it is . A paper chain falls on Ben's head, and everybody laughs. Then the family eats dinner in the sukkah, and Grandpa tells stories about the sukkah he had as a boy.
4Ella looks up through the and sees the stars.
📘 Glossary
- apartment - a home in a big building
- balcony - a small platform outside a window or door
- decorations - things that make a place look nice
- chains - long lines of paper rings joined together
- hangs - puts something up so it does not touch the ground
- pomegranates - round red fruits with many small seeds
- windy - with a lot of wind
- branches - the arms of a tree
Questions
Finding details
1. Why does the family build the sukkah on the balcony?Finding details
2. Who makes the decorations this year?Finding details
3. Write TWO colors of the paper chains.Finding details
4. What falls on Ben's head?Making inferences
5. How does the family feel when the chain falls?Finding details
6. What does Grandpa tell stories about?Finding details
7. What does Ella see through the branches?
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