1-sheet Vocabulary Printables
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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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
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Aligned to CCSS ELA Language Standards
(context clues and determining word meaning).
(context clues and determining word meaning).