1-sheet Vocabulary Printables

Hana's Suitcase
Karen Levine
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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 Hana's Suitcase.

Highlighted words:
brazen, compassion, demonstrate, despondent, humiliate, ingenious, jaunty, liberate, meager, mischievous, monopoly, nonetheless, optimistic, parched, prejudice, provoke, ration, refugee, siege, yearn
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
Hana's Suitcase
Aligned to CCSS ELA Language Standards
(context clues and determining word meaning).