Scott Foresman Reading Street

Reader Response

Open for Discussion Personal Response

MODEL The dinner was not quiet. The women told entertaining stories, and before the meal was over, they left to go on an airplane ride. I'd call it A Surprising After-Dinner Flight.

Comprehension Check Critical Response

1. Possible response: The author uses

descriptive language like "glistened with moonshine" to help me visualize the scene. Author's Purpose

2. Eleanor invites Amelia to dinner at

the White House. Eleanor is fascinated to hear about flying at night. They leave the table and go get on an airplane.

Sequence

3. Possible response: No; I thought

Eleanor would fly the plane.

Story Structure

4. Possible responses: Eleanor:

daring, outspoken, determined; Amelia: adventurous, famous.

Look Back and Write For test practice, assign a 10–15 minute time limit. For assessment, see the rubric on TR22.

Summarize

Have students summarize the story using their completed Venn diagrams.

Retell

Have students retell Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride.

then… use the Scoring Rubric for Retelling below to help move them toward fluent retelling.

If… students have difficulty retelling the story,

Check Retelling

Summarize Write a summary of the night described in this story. Remember to use only a few sentences to tell about the most important events.

Check Retelling Let students listen to other retellings before attempting their own. For more ideas on assessing students' retellings, see the ELL and Transition Handbook.

Students can search the Internet to find out more about the author and illustrator. Have them use a student-friendly search engine and the keywords Pam Muñoz Ryan or Brian Selznick.

Online Student Edition Snapshot Response with answer key (pdf)

Look Back and Write How did Amelia Earhart become famous? Look back at page 566 for information to help you write your answer.

Read page 571 slowly, starting with "Out the window.." How does the author help you see the view of Washington, D.C.?

Describe the sequence of events that leads up to Amelia and Eleanor's flight over Washington, D.C.

Did the story end as you expected it to end? Why or why not?

Write the names Amelia and Eleanor at the top of a two-column chart. List adjectives the author uses to describe them. Use words from the Words to Know list and the story.

Open for Discussion QUIET WHITE HOUSE DINNER. That is the headline you had planned to write. Now, as a star reporter, you'd better revise your story. Why? How?

Reader Response

Read more
books by
Pam Muñoz
Ryan and
Brian Selznick.

a book about it. I sat in a library and finally found
the old newspaper articles. Later, Brian Selznick
found a photograph from that very evening. It
actually happened!"
Brian Selznick, an award-winning illustrator,
was living in Washington, D.C., when he did the
pictures for the book. "I was thrilled to be living in
the city where Amelia and Eleanor went on their
journey. I took the subway to the National Air and
Space Museum to see one of the planes Amelia
owned and to find pictures of other planes she flew.
I walked to the White House, and I got to stand in
the actual room where they ate. For the picture of

Pam Muñoz Ryan has
always admired Amelia Earhart
and Eleanor Roosevelt. "When
I read something about their
meeting, I couldn't wait to write

How Do You
Raise a Raisin?
by Pam Muñoz Ryan

The Meanest Doll
in the World
by Ann Martin,
illustrated by
Brian Selznick

them driving, all I had to do was
walk out my door and draw the
street." Pam Muñoz Ryan and
Brian Selznick have worked
together on several books and
are good friends.