Amos and Boris Vocabulary
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Amos and Boris by William Steig
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This book is a great way to introduce key lessons to elementary students, including comparing and contrasting, picking up on key themes, and analyzing vocabulary words. Including storyboards in these activities will enhance creativity and comprehension due to the visual nature of storyboarding!
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Amos and Boris by William Steig | Amos and Boris Vocabulary Activities
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- NECESSITIES
- IMMENSE
- LOOMED
- n. things you need to live. "When the boat was finished, he loaded it with cheese, biscuits, acorns, honey,...and various other necessities such as bandages and iodine, a yo-yo and playing cards."
- adj. extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree "…later, lying on the deck of his boat gazing at the immense, starry sky, the tiny mouse Amos, a little speck of a living thing in the vast living universe, felt thoroughly akin to it all."
- v. to come into sight suddenly and often with a large, strange, or frightening appearance "As he was asking himself these dreadful questions, a huge head burst through the surface of the water and loomed up over him."
- AMOS AND BORIS VOCABULARY
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