Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this bundle of vocabulary games and activities covering Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat in full. Vocabulary lists, application activities, crossword puzzles, word search games, and answer keys are provided. Materials are organized in four-chapter groupings and delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.)
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
The following words from chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are addressed: aberration, acolyte, admonition, adulterate, affinity, ambrosial, amiable, antipathy, apprehensive, ardent, aristocratic, armament, aseptic, austere, avocation, clad, confound, countenance, credulity, decrepit, defer, desolate, doughty, ensconce, erudite, eschew, evasive, exasperate, expedient, fallacious, fervently, fodder, formaldehyde, formidable, fortuitous, gabble, gauge, genteel, hastily, horde, idle, impertinence, inauspicious, incipient, induce, inscrutable, invariably, jettison, keen, lamentable, lanky, leprosy, lethargic, levity, loutish, malleable, meekly, munificent, obeisance, opaque, paradox, peregrination, plaintively, portentously, precarious, predilection, quizzical, rampant, rebuke, recalcitrant, relish, reluctant, replete, requisite, sibilant, sojourn, studiously, subservience, superfluous, and surcease.
The following words from chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 are addressed: abruptly, acute, adept, adversely, affect, behoove, blandishment, blithering, chagrin, cognizance, copious, crude, deduce, deign, disconcerting, distrait, err, evince, exacting, factotum, fleetingly, gait, glumly, idyllic, immense, impasse, imprecation, inconspicuous, incredulously, indelibly, indignation, insatiable, interlude, inveigle, lichen, lupine, misconstrue, monotony, morose, mournful, negligible, omission, overt, palatial, pallid, palpable, perfunctory, precedence, preternaturally, promenade, prominent, promptly, prurient, reciprocate, salutary, sinuously, stoicism, strenuous, surreptitious, taciturn, tawny, temerity, unabashed, unduly, unobtrusive, usurp, vehemently, veritable, vigilance, virulence, vouchsafe, and wane.
The following words from are chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 are addressed: aloof, ameliorate, apparition, bestow, bevy, boisterously, boon, cache, candor, depredation, diligently, disabused, dispel, diurnal, ebullient, elicit, enamored, encumbrance, ephemeral, epitome, esoteric, extirpation, fruitless, hasten, heathen, hellery, imperative, incontrovertible, indoctrination, infirm, inviolate, lithe, mesenteries, milieu, monogamist, nuptial, obscure, obstinately, paroxysm, pilfer, precede, preliminary, ptarmigan, ratify, rectify, regimen, regurgitate, render, rickets, rudimentary, sadism, salient, scrupulously, sphagnum, spindrift, sustenance, unbridled, unfeigned, vigor, and wistful.
The following words from are chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16 are addressed: abasement, adjourn, ado, amble, amends, amorous, assuaged, attribute, autonomous, baleful, bereaved, braggadocio, buoyantly, cacophony, cavalier, conviviality, credence, dejection, dereliction, disconsolately, dragoon, earnest, equanimity, esker, excursion, exodus, feasible, forestall, grimace, haunch, impassionata, impetuosity, infatuation, inherent, innumerable, internecine, interrogate, linguistics, melee, miscegenation, mitigate, nonplussed, paean, paramount, patriarch, predicament, ravine, rotund, salacious, scamper, scornful, shrill, siege, transcend, truncated, uncanny, untrammeled, ventriloquial, vim, voracity, wean, and wheedling.
The following words from are chapters 17, 18, 19, and 20 are addressed: adjuration, adversary, apathetic, astern, barren, blasé, brandish, communal, competent, demeanor, denouement, desultory, distemper, eminently, enfeebled, erratic, fettle, imminent, impart, insouciance, interstice, irrefutable, jink, lassitude, latent, minutely, muskeg, plead, quandary, query, sacrosanct, saunter, scour, sculpin, shudder, solicitude, spinster, supernumerary, timidly, transgress, traverse, valor, vigilante, wary, wend, and wherewithal.
The following words from are chapters 21, 22, 23, and 24 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.
More resources are available for a variety of texts:
Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this bundle of vocabulary games and activities covering Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat in full. Vocabulary lists, application activities, crossword puzzles, word search games, and answer keys are provided. Materials are organized in four-chapter groupings and delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.)
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
The following words from chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are addressed: aberration, acolyte, admonition, adulterate, affinity, ambrosial, amiable, antipathy, apprehensive, ardent, aristocratic, armament, aseptic, austere, avocation, clad, confound, countenance, credulity, decrepit, defer, desolate, doughty, ensconce, erudite, eschew, evasive, exasperate, expedient, fallacious, fervently, fodder, formaldehyde, formidable, fortuitous, gabble, gauge, genteel, hastily, horde, idle, impertinence, inauspicious, incipient, induce, inscrutable, invariably, jettison, keen, lamentable, lanky, leprosy, lethargic, levity, loutish, malleable, meekly, munificent, obeisance, opaque, paradox, peregrination, plaintively, portentously, precarious, predilection, quizzical, rampant, rebuke, recalcitrant, relish, reluctant, replete, requisite, sibilant, sojourn, studiously, subservience, superfluous, and surcease.
The following words from chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 are addressed: abruptly, acute, adept, adversely, affect, behoove, blandishment, blithering, chagrin, cognizance, copious, crude, deduce, deign, disconcerting, distrait, err, evince, exacting, factotum, fleetingly, gait, glumly, idyllic, immense, impasse, imprecation, inconspicuous, incredulously, indelibly, indignation, insatiable, interlude, inveigle, lichen, lupine, misconstrue, monotony, morose, mournful, negligible, omission, overt, palatial, pallid, palpable, perfunctory, precedence, preternaturally, promenade, prominent, promptly, prurient, reciprocate, salutary, sinuously, stoicism, strenuous, surreptitious, taciturn, tawny, temerity, unabashed, unduly, unobtrusive, usurp, vehemently, veritable, vigilance, virulence, vouchsafe, and wane.
The following words from are chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 are addressed: aloof, ameliorate, apparition, bestow, bevy, boisterously, boon, cache, candor, depredation, diligently, disabused, dispel, diurnal, ebullient, elicit, enamored, encumbrance, ephemeral, epitome, esoteric, extirpation, fruitless, hasten, heathen, hellery, imperative, incontrovertible, indoctrination, infirm, inviolate, lithe, mesenteries, milieu, monogamist, nuptial, obscure, obstinately, paroxysm, pilfer, precede, preliminary, ptarmigan, ratify, rectify, regimen, regurgitate, render, rickets, rudimentary, sadism, salient, scrupulously, sphagnum, spindrift, sustenance, unbridled, unfeigned, vigor, and wistful.
The following words from are chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16 are addressed: abasement, adjourn, ado, amble, amends, amorous, assuaged, attribute, autonomous, baleful, bereaved, braggadocio, buoyantly, cacophony, cavalier, conviviality, credence, dejection, dereliction, disconsolately, dragoon, earnest, equanimity, esker, excursion, exodus, feasible, forestall, grimace, haunch, impassionata, impetuosity, infatuation, inherent, innumerable, internecine, interrogate, linguistics, melee, miscegenation, mitigate, nonplussed, paean, paramount, patriarch, predicament, ravine, rotund, salacious, scamper, scornful, shrill, siege, transcend, truncated, uncanny, untrammeled, ventriloquial, vim, voracity, wean, and wheedling.
The following words from are chapters 17, 18, 19, and 20 are addressed: adjuration, adversary, apathetic, astern, barren, blasé, brandish, communal, competent, demeanor, denouement, desultory, distemper, eminently, enfeebled, erratic, fettle, imminent, impart, insouciance, interstice, irrefutable, jink, lassitude, latent, minutely, muskeg, plead, quandary, query, sacrosanct, saunter, scour, sculpin, shudder, solicitude, spinster, supernumerary, timidly, transgress, traverse, valor, vigilante, wary, wend, and wherewithal.
The following words from are chapters 21, 22, 23, and 24 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.
More resources are available for a variety of texts:
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