Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6
Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4
Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for The Kite Runner is arranged in order of appearance:
The Kite Runner: Chapters One-Four: pp.1-30:
affluent, tapestries, chandelier, vaulted, congenital, perpetually, skeptic, scoffed, virtuous, intricacies, exhilarating, liability, melee, jostled, vehemently, revving, nemesis, obstinacy, irony
Chapters Five-Seven: pp.30-69
monarchy, unwittingly, harassing, trepidation, lorries, foyer, integrity, squabbling, gnarled, imminent, demise
Chapters Eight-Ten: pp. 70-108
lumbering, insomniac, embodiment, bazaar, drone, shrouded, withered, stench
Chapters Eleven-Twelve: pp. 109-144
cretin, permeate, cardamom, tarpaulin, suitor, carcinoma, palliative, metastasized, chastise
Chapters Thirteen-Sixteen: pp. 145-187
posh, ensuing, incessant, chuff, presumptuous
Chapters Seventeen-twenty-one; pp. 188-238
wary, oblivion, dismissive, snickered, burlap, relic, obliges, haphazardly, hunkered
Chapters Twenty-two-twenty-three
tote, morbidly, calloused, hemorrhage, paunchy
Chapters Twenty-four-Twenty-five
irrevocably, teeming, turmoil, insomniac, epiphany, eccentric
The The Kite Runner Fill-in-the-blank uses a vocabulary list of 12 words taken directly from The Kite Runner. Vocabulary words are used in context but do not refer to the actual story.
If you are unfamiliar with the meaning of vocabulary words, study the definition. Put your answers in The Kite Runner fill-in-the-blanks activity. If you are working on ACT or SAT vocabulary, this vocabulary word list from The Kite Runner should help word mastery.
The Kite Runner Vocabulary Word List:
chuffed, congenital, cretin, epiphany, foyer, gnarled, hunker, jostled, lorries, melee, palliative, scoffed
THE KITE RUNNER Fill-in-the-blanks Worksheet
1. Brenda understands that her child might have a _______ abnormality but one that is usually not hereditary.
2. When Karen proposed more rigid classroom rules at the faculty meeting, colleagues _______ at the absurd ideas!
3. Dr. Loring attended to his patient who had been injured during a _______ at a local concert.
4. Jim followed a procession of _______ painted in identical camouflage colors for several miles on the highway.
5. Tracy looked at the _______ hands of the old woman and politely asked if her joints were painful.
6. Bobby was so mad that his brother carelessly spilled milk on his pants that he unkindly yelled, "Mike, you are such a _______."
7. A kindly caregiver named Priscilla offered _______ care to the elderly woman who was bedridden.
8. Marlene is feeling very _______ that her entire family will help celebrate her birthday!
9. Josie experienced an _______ when she realized she actually had time to get to a wedding she thought she would miss!
10. Passengers on the crowded subway were _______ one against the other as the train lurched.
11. Chris welcome guests to the hotel in the large _______ and directed them to the concierge.
12. The trainer worked with the puppy to have him _______ down each time he got a certain command.
ANSWERS:
1. congenital
2. scoffed
3. melee
4. lorries
5. gnarled
6. cretin
7. palliative
8. chuffed
9. epiphany
10. jostled
11. foyer
12. hunker
Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list with a Fill-in-the-blanks worksheet for The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. |
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