1-sheet Vocabulary Printables

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Give students a vocabulary head start before reading.
20 words on one double-sided sheet.
No grading required.

How it works

Students preview 20 words from the reading, each in a sentence that supports understanding.

An optional post-reading quiz uses the same 20 words in excerpts from the text. Use it after reading, or skip it entirely.

Why it works

The pre-reading activity supports comprehension and primes students to notice the words in context. The optional post-reading quiz reinforces the same words while using excerpts from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Highlighted words:
abstracted, abstracted (2), adapt, adapted, analytical, deduce, despair, despair (2), endeavor, feasible, hypothesis, hypothesis (2), infer, inquest, inquiry, minute, narrative, positive, positive (2), sinister
Why these 20 words?

Selected automatically for:

  • grade-level challenge
  • academic usefulness
  • frequency in the text
  • confidence in contextual meaning
Resources
Other vocabulary resources for
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Aligned to CCSS ELA Language Standards
(context clues and determining word meaning).