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Book Summary For Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone

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  • 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 Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone is arranged in order of appearance

  • The Boy Who Lived: crane (v), shudder, mysterious, tyke, peculiar, drum (v), stunt, imagination, unblinkingly, twitch, spectacles, rummage (v), pinprick, ruffle (v),
  • The Vanishing Glass: bonnet, tantrum, frantically, hoodlum, snigger, knickerbockers, boa constrictor, slither, snooze, vigorously, deafening, gibber
  • The Letters From No One: twang, sneer, parchment, dangle, quivering
  • The Keeper of The Keys: squashed, flicker, sizzle, crackpot, expel, wriggle
  • Dragon Alley: swoop, flutter, puncture, draft, cauldron, pub, babble, cobbled, totter, stalagmite, stalactite, ravine, infernal, smuggle, circumstances, collapsible, slimy, gloom, transfiguration, unicorn, phoenix
  • The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters: swoop, mutter, disgruntle, Blimey, compartment, rattle, astonishment, vault, cram
  • The Sorting Hat: dormitory, anxiously, bowler, scuttle, pompously, humbug, turban
  • The Potion’s Master: corridor, wheeze, zombie, quill, dungeon, shimmer, goblin
  • The Midnight Duel: vibrate, snatch, flank, embers, gallop, snout
  • Halloween: trapdoor, parcel, awkward, banquet, griffin, boulder, troll, sway
  • Quidditch: referee, conjure, budge, snitch, meddle
  • The Mirror of Frised: grind, mistletoe, restrict, fascinate, gleaming, invisible, prefect, tureen, engulf, ornate, splendid, nearsighted
  • Nicolas Flamele: dampen, curse, mystify, grumpily, immortal, werewolf, biased, squint, whirl, cloak
  • Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback: nag, moleskin, bolt, detention, rubbish
  • The Forbidden Forest: astronomy, hourglass, ajar, kindle, leer, stride, stump, hoist, rustling, thrash, lurk
  • Through The Trap Door: horrify, frantically, splutter, enchantment, skim, omen, ghoul, cease, tendril, limp, pounce, nostril
  • The Man With Two Faces: twitch, scurry, token, elixir, stoat, hush, hoarse, abysmal

    Another wizard vocabulary word list suggestive of wizard words, wizard objects or wizard thoughts!
    abhorrent, accursed, afraid, apparition, deja vu, disturbing, foul, gasping, heinous, hideous, manifestation, mesmerize, nightmarish, zap

    \”Wizard\” activities:

  • 1. Draw or find pictures of items suggestive of \”wizards\”
  • 2. Make, buy or cook some food that would be \”unusual\”
  • 3. Create a list of safety procedures for children
  • 4. Find/bring into class something a wizard might need/own!
  • 5. Discover as many words as possible that include the letters w-i-z-a-r-d
  • 6. Find a another good story you can share: make-up, books, newspaper
  • 7. Have a contest to name items to be put in a wizard’s home
  • 8. As a group, decide what kinds of people could get along with a wizard (someone in the news, a cartoon figure, a comic character or someone a person might know or have met/real or imaginary!)
  • 9. Do face painting, make game booths or a haunted house, make a scavenger hunt, do sponge painting

    For more ideas, see a wizard vocabulary word list on the www.myVocabulary.com home-page. Thank you, Jan Cook of Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list and wizard activities for Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone written by J.K. Rowling.