Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat Chapters 5 through 8 Vocabulary Games

Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension, and integrate scientific nonfiction in the ELA classroom with this set of vocabulary games and activities covering chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. 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: 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.

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