

Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension, and integrate narrative nonfiction in the ELA classroom with this set of vocabulary games and activities covering chapters 15 through 21 of Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. 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: ablution, affect, amiss, auspice, beneficiary, chieftaincy, commotion, convoy, counsel, democratically, descend, enunciate, exploit, facilitator, fare, festoon, gari, inquire, jerrican, jetty, latrine, mantle, marvel, mesmerized, persistent, perspire, proficient, proposition, provoke, raggamorphy, reconcile, redemption, relentlessly, resilience, savor, sentence, sporadic, summon, torrent, vividly, wail, Walkman, and wander.
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
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A Long Way Gone Quizzes, Vocabulary Games, Research Project, Test, and Keys
Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, facilitate the process of academic research, and integrate narrative nonfiction into the English Language Arts classroom with this bundle of activities and assessments for teaching Ishmael Beah's *A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier*. Six quizzes, three vocabulary application activities, three crossword puzzles, three word search games, a comprehensive research project, a summative test, and answer keys are included. 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 * Explore how figures in the text think, behave, interact, and develop * Articulate connections between a research topic and the assigned text * Evaluate the credibility of nonfiction texts, taking into consideration readability, date, relevance, expertise, and bias * Organize information in a cohesive manner, using a note-taking system that includes summary, paraphrasing, and quoted material * Analyze, synthesize, and integrate information, generating a thoughtfully comprehensive report, free of generalities and redundancies * Write a brief essay addressing the author's resilience, supporting claims with relevant textual evidence and adhering to the standard conventions of written English * Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Vocabulary Games Bundle
Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension and integrate narrative nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this bundle of vocabulary games and activities covering Ishmael Beah's *A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier*. Vocabulary lists, application activities, crossword puzzles, word search games, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. The following words from chapters 1 through 9 are addressed: adage, avenge, bayonet, cassette, commence, congealed, crapes, cutlass, disconsolate, evade, evoke, flotsam, hasten, hoarse, Imam, indelibly, interrogate, laden, liberation, lorry, machete, maim, mercenaries, mosque, notorious, parable, predicament, refugee, reluctantly, scabbard, shudder, soukous, sternly, strive, subsequent, sura, tactic, taut, thatched, translucent, vain, verandah, vigilance, and wharf. The following words from chapters 10 through 14 are addressed: accord, akimbo, boast, calabash, conjure, countenance, dilapidated, disperse, embellish, evince, exalt, garrison, intermission, jovial, jubilation, monologue, pestle, profusely, Quran, recite, respective, reverie, riffraff, spirogyra, tarpaulin, transfixed, transparent, tributary, vanquished, vehemently, waft, and wahlee. The following words from chapters 15 through 21 are addressed: ablution, affect, amiss, auspice, beneficiary, chieftaincy, commotion, convoy, counsel, democratically, descend, enunciate, exploit, facilitator, fare, festoon, gari, inquire, jerrican, jetty, latrine, mantle, marvel, mesmerized, persistent, perspire, proficient, proposition, provoke, raggamorphy, reconcile, redemption, relentlessly, resilience, savor, sentence, sporadic, summon, torrent, vividly, wail, Walkman, and wander. 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
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