1-sheet Vocabulary Printables

The Boy on the Wooden Box
Leon Leyson
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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 Boy on the Wooden Box.

Highlighted words:
affirm, anxiety, black market, congregation, contradict, demonstrate, devise, eviction, focus, focus (2), immigrate, inevitable, infirmary, interminable, legacy, ration, refugee, scarcity, squalid, synagogue
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 Boy on the Wooden Box
Aligned to CCSS ELA Language Standards
(context clues and determining word meaning).