Grade 2 Read-Aloud

188 Westward Expansion: Supplemental Guide 9 | The Buffalo Hunters

Vocabulary Chart for The Buff alo Hunters

Core Vocabulary words are in bold.

Multiple Meaning Word Activity word is underlined.

Vocabulary Instructional Activity words have an asterisk (*).

Suggested words to pre-teach are in italics.

Type of Words Tier 3

Domain-Specifi c Words

Tier 2

General Academic Words

Tier 1

Everyday-Speech Words

Understanding

bison

hunt/hunting/

hunter

locomotives

tribe

conflict

nervous

sacred

signal/signaled

skilled

solemnly*

source

survive

threaten

wasting

fallen

hill

horse

life

meat

riders/riding

rode

toward

Multiple Meaning

arrows

herd/herds

tracks

charged ground

train

Phrases

Black Eagle

Chief Red Cloud

iron horse

Lakota Sioux

Running Fox

butterflies in his

stomach

depended on*

train tracks

Cognates

bisonte

locomotora

tribu

conflicto

nervioso/a

sagrado(a)

solemnemente*

tren