1-sheet Vocabulary Printables

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
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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 Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Highlighted words:
analysis, auspicious, bias, context, convention, corpulent, differentiate, discredit, flaunt, incidental, initiate, morbid, nostalgia, paranoid, paranoid (2), perspective, perspective (2), prudent, sober up, theme
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 Perks of Being a Wallflower
Aligned to CCSS ELA Language Standards
(context clues and determining word meaning).