The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Vocabulary Worksheets, Crossword Puzzles, and Word Searches

Ideal for American Literature classes, Gothic horror novel studies, and the Halloween season, this bundle of vocabulary worksheets covers Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and supports reading comprehension. For each of the nine chapters, a crossword puzzle, word search, and terminology application worksheet are provided. Answer keys are also included.

Consider using these activities in the following ways:

• As frontloading activities to maximize reading comprehension

• As collaborative vocabulary development activities

• As emergency sub plan activities

Spanning the entire novel, 150 vocabulary words are highlighted: abdicate, aberration, abide, abruptly, acquiescently, aghast, alacrity, alter, ambiguous, amiable, annihilation, anthropology, apparition, apprehensive, arrogant, atavistic, attaché, balustrade, batty, beckon, blunder, brandish, bravado, cad, coaxingly, complacently, concede, confidingly, congenial, consequently, contrition, countenance, crossly, cynical, demurely, deplore, deprecatory, derisive, dissuade, docilely, drab, drowsily, dubiously, earnestness, ectoplasm, eddy, edifying, elude, emphatically, entreat, ethereal, exasperation, exorcism, fatuously, feinting, fervently, finery, flippant, futilely, gallant, garret, gaudy, gluttony, grimly, haste, heartily, humility, idly, imply, imprudent, impudently, incredulity, incredulously, indefatigable, indifferently, indignation, ineffectual, infallible, infernal, inquiringly, insuperable, intrepid, invariably, iridescent, ironic, irrevocable, jeer, joggle, lavish, leprous, lout, magnanimous, malice, mar, marooned, martyr, mauve, mediumistic, meekly, milksop, ministration, mollified, mutinous, obscure, parapsychologist, petulance, pious, pique, placatingly, planchette, precariously, precede, predecessor, preliminary, primly, procession, queasy, quizzical, rampant, rapt, recrimination, relinquish, repentance, reprove, ruefully, scowl, serenely, sheaf, shudder, slyly, spontaneous, stately, stoical, subterranean, tangible, tartly, tenacious, tentative, transparent, turret, unerring, vain, valance, valiantly, vigil, wallow, wanly, wraith, wriggle, and wryly.

Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.)

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