To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary Games and Activities Bundle

Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 13 vocabulary application activities, 13 crossword puzzles, 13 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats.

A total of 203 challenging words are addressed: aberrations, abominable, accost, acquiescence, acquittal, acrimonious, adjourn, affluent, aloof, altercation, ambidextrous, amiable, apoplectic, apothecary, appalling, appeal, apprehension, arbitrate, ascertaining, assuage, auspicious, austere, begrudge, benign, bestow, bewilderment, bide, blandly, bleakly, brevity, burdensome, caliber, candid, clad, cleave, commotion, competent, concede, condescension, connive, contemptuous, contentious, convey, corroborative, cowardice, credibility, crude, curt, dainty, denunciation, desolate, diligently, diminutive, discreet, dismay, dreary, duress, eccentricity, editorial, eerily, elucidate, elude, elusive, escapade, evident, evoke, expunge, farthest, fatalistic, feeble, feral, florid, foolhardy, formidable, fretfully, frivolous, furtive, futility, garish, genially, grudge, guilelessness, habiliments, haughty, hearty, hone, idle, illicit, impassive, impertinence, imprudent, incantation, inconspicuous, indict, indigenous, indignant, industrious, infallible, inordinately, inquire, inquisitive, instinctively, iota, irascible, jim-dandy, keenly, libel, malevolent, mausoleum, meditations, meditative, meekly, melancholy, mercifully, meteorological, mollify, morbid, mournfully, murmur, mutter, myopic, nebulous, nondescript, notoriety, obliquely, oblivious, obscure, oppressive, ordeals, palliation, passe, peeved, pensive, perforated, perpetual, perpetuate, persecution, pestilence, pilgrimage, placid, predilection, prerogative, procure, propensity, providence, prowess, purloin, quaint, qualm, ramshackle, rankle, rectitude, reluctantly, reprimand, resolve, reverent, ruefully, scowl, scurry, serene, shrill, sibilant, skulk, sneer, solitary, spurious, stealthily, sternness, stolidly, strenuous, subdued, subtlety, succinct, sulk, tacit, taciturn, tactful, tedious, temerity, timid, tirade, touchous, tranquil, trousseau, trudge, turmoil, tyranny, umbrage, uncouth, undulate, unobtrusive, untrammeled, vague, vapid, varmint, vehemently, venerable, vivid, volition, wary, weary, woes, and wrathfully.

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