Academic Words for Every Subject
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Academic Words for Every Subject
Academic Words for Every Subject worksheet for Grades 4 and 5. Sort general academic words such as compare, infer and evidence from words that belong to one subject, then choose the academic word that matches each meaning. With the rule in a box and an answer key.
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Tell words that belong to one subject (fossil in science, quotient in math, treaty in social studies) from words used in every subject (compare, infer, evidence), and choose the meaning a word has in a subject, such as a face in math.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child underline the words around the new word that give clues.
- Have the child try their meaning in the sentence in place of the word and see if it makes sense.
- Look the word up after guessing, to check how close the guess was.
Common mistakes
- Guessing a meaning from what the word looks like, such as "fragile" means "frog".
- Using only the sentence with the word. The clue is often in the next sentence.
- Using the everyday meaning of a word that has a special meaning in a subject, such as "table" in math.
