Details
Pages
15 Pages
Subject
ELA, Literature & Poetry, Environment & Ecology
Languages
English
Product
Digital
Grade
8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Resource Type
Activities, Games, Worksheets
Standard
Common Core English Language Arts Standards
Description
Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension, and integrate scientific nonfiction in the ELA classroom with this set of vocabulary games and activities covering chapters 21, 22, 23, and 24 of Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf. A vocabulary list, application worksheet, crossword puzzle, word search, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abreast, affront, ascertain, baneful, bogy, bravado, consternation, cower, decimate, disperse, disseminate, dither, don, elephantine, encyst, engender, enraptured, feint, foil, forage, galumph, gambit, idiosyncrasy, indignant, jaunt, lugubrious, lumbar, niche, nomadic, obliquity, ordain, peripheral, pertinent, placid, prospect, rapport, remonstrance, scatology, serpentine, sleuthing, spurn, strychnine, transverse, tunic, unanimously, ungainly, and vilification.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abreast, affront, ascertain, baneful, bogy, bravado, consternation, cower, decimate, disperse, disseminate, dither, don, elephantine, encyst, engender, enraptured, feint, foil, forage, galumph, gambit, idiosyncrasy, indignant, jaunt, lugubrious, lumbar, niche, nomadic, obliquity, ordain, peripheral, pertinent, placid, prospect, rapport, remonstrance, scatology, serpentine, sleuthing, spurn, strychnine, transverse, tunic, unanimously, ungainly, and vilification.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension, and integrate scientific nonfiction in the ELA classroom with this set of vocabulary games and activities covering chapters 21, 22, 23, and 24 of Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf. A vocabulary list, application worksheet,... more
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