Academic Words in Science Passages

Read each word bank aloud first and ask your child to act out or explain any word they know. For the math page, have them do the arithmetic before choosing the word. Check with the answer key.

Read a plant experiment passage and match science words like data and evidence to meanings. Academic words are words used in school subjects. Scientists use them to describe how they test ideas. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, write the bold word that matches each meaning on the line. The page opens with a worked example, and the answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 4th 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.

Academic vocabulary is the set of words used across school subjects, like explain, identify, evidence and estimate. These words tell students what kind of thinking to do, so a child who misreads summarize as describe can answer a question incorrectly even when they understood the text.

4th grade texts move into science and social studies content, and test questions use more formal directions. CCSS L.4.6 asks students to use general academic and subject-specific words accurately.

Use them at home. Ask your child to predict what happens next in a show, or to compare two snacks. The worksheet words stick when they hear them outside school.

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