Do you have what it takes to survive in the wilderness? A high-interest reading passage offers practical advice while incorporating vocabulary practice. Follow-up worksheets focus on skills such as defining words, making inferences, and breaking up words into roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Concepts

academic vocabulary, context clues, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Read the passage twice, defining the words in bold the second time
• Rewrite the passage as a class by replacing vocabulary words with relevant synonyms

Classroom Considerations

• Save paper by having students read passage digitally

Pros

• Offers opportunities for guided and independent practice
• Teaches vocabulary words in the context of a larger passage

Cons

• Heavy on traditional vocabulary worksheets

Common Core

L.7.4.a L.7.4.d L.8.4.a L.8.4.d