Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and sharpen literary device application skills with these activities and assessments covering chapters 17 through 24 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves. Two quizzes, two vocabulary application activities, two crossword puzzles, two word search games, a literary elements worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Apply knowledge of various literary devices including alliteration, allusion, assonance, epiphany, euphemism, hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, and situational irony Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction

Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and sharpen literary device application skills with these activities and assessments covering chapters 9 through 16 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves. Two quizzes, two vocabulary application activities, two crossword puzzles, two word search games, a literary elements worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Apply knowledge of various literary devices including allusion, dramatic irony, epiphany, euphemism, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, situational irony, and verbal irony Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction

Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and sharpen literary device application skills with these activities and assessments covering chapters 1 through 8 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves. Two quizzes, two vocabulary application activities, two crossword puzzles, two word search games, a literary elements worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Apply knowledge of various literary devices including alliteration, allusion, epiphany, euphemism, idiom, invective, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, situational irony, and verbal irony Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction

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. 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 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 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 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 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.

Evaluate reading comprehension, promote homework accountability, and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this set of quizzes covering the entirety of Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. The assessments may double as guided reading worksheets or review handouts. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Questions pertain to the following: An incident that helped lead Mowat to become a biologist The purpose behind Mowat’s study A long trip to “the middle of nowhere” Mowat’s supplies Mike’s background The first encounter with a wolf Alarming discoveries A move to facilitate wolf observations “Marking territory” “Wolf naps” Uncle Albert A fear for the wolves’ survival A staple of the wolves’ diet George’s painful experience The purpose of a scientific experiment The main point of Ootek’s story How wolves catch fish The death of large quantities of caribou Ootek’s unique skill The wolves’ behavior An experiment involving Mike’s husky Angeline’s surprising ability Angeline’s family Census of the wolf population Population control The Churchill incident Why Inuit women thought Mowat was crazy The purpose behind the wolves’ test of the caribou A repulsive discovery concerning the caribou Growth of the pups A study involving a gas mask A mass death The final professional obligation