"Everyday Use" Short Story Vocabulary Word Search Words Only (by Alice Walker)

These are ten words from Alice Walker's "Everyday Use."

Here are the words:

RIFLING - Searching in a rough or quick manner

DOCTRINES - Principles; teachings

OPPRESS - To keep down by unjust use of power

COWERING - Drawing back or huddling in fear

FURTIVE - Attempting to avoid notice

SIDLE - To move sideways, especially in a shy way

DINGY - Gloomy, shabby, or dirty

TOTTERING - Moving unsteadily, as if about to fall

ALCOVE - A recessed cut-out in a room’s wall

HOMELY - Lacking in physical beauty or proportion

I have at least four products available for this literature that rely on the same combination of words and definitions:

1) A word search using just the words themselves as clues. Note that the definitions won’t be found anywhere on this product, itself.

2) A crossword puzzle with definitions as clues + a word bank.

3) A second (and different) word search using the words' definitions as clues from which students can locate the corresponding words.

4) A second (and different) crossword puzzle with definitions, but no word bank.

Check the product title and thumbnails to make sure you're purchasing the one you want, but please consider the following: Perhaps the best way to inculcate the words is with all four! Start with #1, the regular word search, and, over some days, move through them consecutively until, perhaps, you use #4, the crossword with no word bank, as a summative assessment measuring both spelling and association? Repetition and varied representations over time can be important to language acquisition. Enjoy! Email me k.davis.preach@gmail.com with questions or suggestions.