Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan Created by Ms. Turitto

Spelling • 1. Loop • 2. Wounded • 3. Shoot • 4. Booth • 5. Broom • 6. boost • 7. Mood • 8. Fooling • 9. Afternoon • 10. Room • 11. Smooth • 12. Tooth • 13. Raccoon • 14. Bloomed • 15. Souvenir • 16. Routine • 17. Roofs • 18. Loose • 19. Coop • 20. Stoop

Challenge Words • Navigator • License • Aviator • Copilot • Adventurer

Read Aloud • Do you share the pet’s feelings of admiration toward Eleanor Roosevelt? Why or Why not? • What actions mentioned in “We Could Be Friends” help you picture the friendship? • Calling each other, playing, taking walks, talking, goofing around.

• How are these poems similar? How are they different? • They both use rhyme; The first poem is about friendship, and the second is about admiration for a leader.

Vocab Splash • Outspoken • Practical • Brisk • Elegant • Elevations • Marveled • Miniatures • Star struck

Vocabulary: • Outspoken • bold or honest in speech • Practical • useful or sensible • Brisk • cool and stimulation • Elegant • tasteful, stylish and beautiful

• Elevations heights above the ground or sea-level Marveled became filled with awe or wonder Miniatures small-scale models of larger things • Star struck • full of stars

OUTSPOKEN • Out-spo-ken • Adjective • Bold or honest speaker

PRACTICAL Prac-tic-al Which item would NOT be practical in the Adjective winter time? Useful or sensible

ELEVATIONS • El-e-va-tions • Noun • Heights above sea level

BRISK • Brisk • Adjective • Cool and stimulating, like weather

ELEGANT • El-e-gant • Adjective • Tasteful, stylish

MARVELED • Mar-veled • Verb • Filled with awe or wonder WOW! THAT’S COOL, MAN!

MINIATURES • Min-ia-tures • Noun • Small-scaled models of larger things

STARSTRUCK • Star-struck • Adjective • Full of stars

Vocabulary Activity • Your teacher will assign you a partner. • You have 5 minutes to come up with a skit to act out your vocabulary word without saying the word. • After you act out your skit, the class will try to guess what your word was.

Vocab Act • Outspoken • Practical • Brisk • Elegant • Elevations • Marveled • Miniatures • Starstruck

Use a Venn Diagram to compare Amelia and Eleanor.

Grammar: Complete and Simple Subjects • The complete subject is all the words that name the person or thing the sentence is about. • The simple subject is the main word or words in the complete subject of a sentence.