Academic Words in History Passages

Have your child use each new word in a sentence about their own day, like I can infer you are hungry. On the argument page, ask them to point to the claim and the evidence. Check with the answer key.

Read a railroad history passage and use context to define words like significant and obstacles. Academic words are words used in many school subjects. History texts use them to explain events, causes and results. The directions on the page read: Read the passage and use context clues to figure out each bold word. Then, write the letter of its meaning in the box. The page opens with a worked example, and the answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade academic vocabulary, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Direction words like analyze, infer, evaluate, summarize and contrast, argument words like claim, reason and evidence, and cross-subject words like significant, impact and obstacle. CCSS L.5.6 asks students to use these general academic words accurately.

5th graders write opinion pieces and read texts that argue a point. Knowing that a claim is the main point and evidence is the facts that support it helps them both write and judge an argument.

Academic words show up most in content reading. The railroad passage puts words like significant and obstacles in context, so students practice using clues to define them the way they will in social studies.

Yes. All four academic vocabulary sheets have an answer key.