Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Lesson plans and teaching resources

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. Adobe Reader required for these resources.


  • Background information, character list, vocabulary words.

  • Students make predictions, analyze prefixes.

  • Students work with characterization, understanding word origins, and making predictions.

  • Students compare and contrast (includes writing task), work with word origins.

  • Students summarize 2 anecdotes and explain their significance. Includes writing task.

  • Students compare the narrator's assessment of people and events with their own. Includes writing task.

  • Student identify the tone in specific incidents as serious, humorous, or neutral. Then they speculate on the author's purpose in using that tone.

  • 5 discussion questions and 5 post-reading activities.

  • 10 questions.


Background information and discussion questions.


Can we believe this writer? A good research prompt.


Discussion questions, vocabulary, writing tasks, and learning activities, all organized by chapter. 10 pages; Adobe Reader required.


Comprehension questions organized by section.


10 questions; Adobe Reader required.


Vocabulary organized by chapter. Spreadsheet required for access.