1. Illustrated by Diane Greenseid
Name ______________________________
Ramona Forever
By Beverly Cleary
Illustrated by Diane Greenseid
Prediction
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Author’s Purpose
inform persuade entertain

2. Ramona Forever Focus Skills:
To use prefixes and suffixes to determine or clarify meaning
To read and understand a realistic fiction selection
To compare realistic fiction with poetry
To use subject pronouns correctly in speaking and writing
Genre
Realistic Fiction- tells about characters and events that are like people and events in real life
Summary
When Ramona’s mother has a new baby, Ramona’s concerns are cured with extra doses of affection from her parents.
Reading Strategy
Use Decoding and Phonics
There will always be unfamiliar words in a story. Figuring out how to pronounce a word is called decoding. Once a word has been decoded, readers can confirm word meanings using context clues or a dictionary.

3. What big event is happening at the Quimby home?
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360
What big event is happening at the Quimby home?
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Who is Algie?
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How does Ramona feel about her mom going to the hospital?
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How can you tell?
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362
How does Beezus comfort Ramona?
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How does Ramona feel when the phone rings?

4. How do the girls feel about being alone at night?
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364
How do the girls feel about being alone at night?
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What wonderful and surprising event happens next?
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Why is it hard for Ramona to understand who Roberta is?
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366
What makes the day after the baby’s birth seem long and lonely?
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Why do Beezus and Ramona vacuum and dust?
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Why was Mr. Quimby exhausted that evening?
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5. What awful thing happens when Ramona tries to see the baby?
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What awful thing happens when Ramona tries to see the baby?
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How does Ramona feel when she is sent downstairs? How would you feel?
Ramona
you
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370
What happens to Ramona as she sits in the lobby?
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Why?
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Why does Ramona feel better after the doctor examines her?
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6. What does the doctor say Ramona needs?
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374
What does the doctor say Ramona needs?
What does Mr. Quimby give Ramona? __________________________________________________________
How does Ramona feel about not being able to see Roberta for three days?
Draw her face.
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376
What makes Mrs. Quimby’s words to Ramona the most beautiful words she had ever heard?
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How does Ramona seem to feel when she sees the baby? How do you know?
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Why does Ramona feel sympathy for Roberta?

7. What is Ramona’s problem? How do her parents help her?
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What is the author trying to say about growing up?
Think and Respond
What is Ramona’s problem? How do her parents help her?
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Why does Ramona think she is winning at growing up?
What is siblingitis? Explain in your own words.
Do you think the doctor wrote a good prescription? Why or why not?

8. Use the graphic organizer to answer the following questions.
How does Ramona feel about her mother going to the hospital?
What do the girls decide to do right after Mrs. Quimby goes to the hospital?
Where does this story take place?
What is Mr. Quimby’s first name?
Who is the fifth Quimby?
Why is Ramona’s heart pounding at the hospital?
Why does Ramona feel sick as she waits in the hospital lobby?
What does the word sibling mean?
Why does Mr. Quimby give Ramona a hug and a kiss?
Mrs. Quimby says Roberta looks like ____________.
Why does Ramona agree that she is wonderful and blunderful?
What beautiful thing does Mrs. Quimby tell Ramona at the hospital?
How is Roberta different front the baby on the cover of A Name for Your Baby?