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Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension and integrate narrative nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this bundle of vocabulary games and activities covering Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Vocabulary lists, application activities, crossword puzzles, word search games, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.

The following words from chapters 1 through 9 are addressed: adage, avenge, bayonet, cassette, commence, congealed, crapes, cutlass, disconsolate, evade, evoke, flotsam, hasten, hoarse, Imam, indelibly, interrogate, laden, liberation, lorry, machete, maim, mercenaries, mosque, notorious, parable, predicament, refugee, reluctantly, scabbard, shudder, soukous, sternly, strive, subsequent, sura, tactic, taut, thatched, translucent, vain, verandah, vigilance, and wharf.

The following words from chapters 10 through 14 are addressed: accord, akimbo, boast, calabash, conjure, countenance, dilapidated, disperse, embellish, evince, exalt, garrison, intermission, jovial, jubilation, monologue, pestle, profusely, Quran, recite, respective, reverie, riffraff, spirogyra, tarpaulin, transfixed, transparent, tributary, vanquished, vehemently, waft, and wahlee.

The following words from chapters 15 through 21 are addressed: ablution, affect, amiss, auspice, beneficiary, chieftaincy, commotion, convoy, counsel, democratically, descend, enunciate, exploit, facilitator, fare, festoon, gari, inquire, jerrican, jetty, latrine, mantle, marvel, mesmerized, persistent, perspire, proficient, proposition, provoke, raggamorphy, reconcile, redemption, relentlessly, resilience, savor, sentence, sporadic, summon, torrent, vividly, wail, Walkman, and wander.

By engaging with these activities, students will:

• Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
• Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
• Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences