Key Academic Vocabulary for Social Studies by Grade Level

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1 Key Academic Vocabulary for Social Studies by Grade Level Why Teach Vocabulary Development? Effective vocabulary instruction is critical for increasing students academic achievement. Educational researc plays a significant role in reading comprehension. Robert Marzano also notes the importance of vocabulary development for building background kno opportunities to learn new concepts. This is especially important for social studies, as 55 percent of students academic vocabulary comes from socia and economics. Although wide reading increases students vocabulary significantly, direct and explicit instruction in vocabulary is also an important co The vocabulary listed here is considered Tier 3. Tier 3 words are domain specific; meaning they apply to a specific content area/school subject. The studies concepts. It is important for Tier 3 words not to be separated from their context. This document was specifically created K-12 to show the pr order to grasp the content. The terms were selected using Robert Marzano's cross-referenced with the Alabama Course of Study. K calendar barter century adapt agriculture abolish chore borrowing colonist ancestor artifact abolitionist movement communicate capital consumer border barrier island amendment community capital courage citizenship boundary American Revolution fairness citizen decade city boycott Art. of Confederation flag compass rose desert civilization cash crop Bill of Rights globe continent equality communication civil rights Branches of government group country equator community climate checks and balances hero cultures folktales conservation colony Civil War holiday earn Founding Fathers crop compromise Confederacy job future freedom custom Cracker Congress lake gender goods exploration cultural heritage Constituion language governor honesty explorer discriminate Declaration of Independence leader inventor immigrant factory executive democracy location mayor independence festival export emancipation map natural resource island generation geopolitical map embargo money needs justice goods governor federal mountain opportunity landform government import Founding Fathers neighborhood past landmark income integration immigrant ocean population liberty income judicial liberty president present migration industry latitude loyalist rule recycle monument invention legislature Mayflower Compact safety region patriotic symbols location longitude Parliament season river physical map natural resources map key petition

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3 chers have shown for years that vocabulary knowledge owledge, and thereby increasing students al studies disciplines : history, geography, government omponent of learning vocabulary. ese words are critical to understanding key social rogeression of terms students need to have access to in Civics 7- Geo 8th agrarian amend acculturation ancient agriculture coalition Apartheid Black Death alien commodity assimilation Buddhism ally Congress biodiversity caste system bicameral democracy capital Christianity boycott democratic forms of gov't cash crop chronology citizenship dictatorship consumer circa compromise diversify continental divide city-state debate economic systems crusade civilization generation economy deforestation conflict genocide entrepreneur ethnic group conquest Industrial Revolution export ethnicity culture justify Federalism Euro developing mission gross domestic product genocide diplomacy neutrality gross national product geography diversity nullify legislature global economy domesticate popular sovereignty monarchy hemisphere dynasty precedent nationalism illiteracy emperor prejudice natural resource industralization empire propaganda oligarchy infrastructure empire ratify parliament innovation famine revolution per capita income interdependence feudalism secede philosophy irrigation Hinduism tolerance poltical map scale Islam

4 president maritime Judaism recession migration mideval representative democracy navigable monotheism scarce OPEC monsoons separation of powers population density polytheism theocracy tributary republic trial middle class military socioeconomics sub-continent subsistence

5 9th 10th 11th U.S. Government Economics absolutism abolition affirmative action appropriations budget assimilation capitalism appeasement bicameral business cycle autocracy compromise civil service Bill of Rights capital bureaucracy democratic conservative conservative collective bargaining capitalism emancipation deflation constituency comparative advantage civilization expansionism desegration constitution compound interest Cold War fundamental rights dictatorship defendant corporation Columbian Exchange Great Awakening facism democracy debt Communism immigration inflation diplomacy deficit conservatism impeachment isolationists due process demand constitutional gov't imperalism liberal equality economics culture impressment muckraker executive entrepreneurship democracy judicial review patriotism federal equilibrium dictator Manifest Destiny Populism foreign policy exchange divine rights nullification Progressivism government fiscal policy Enlightenment reconstruction Prohibition hegemony goods facism representation propaganda ideology inflation Holocaust republican reactionary thinking infrastructure interest humanism sectionalism status quo judicial labor imperialism self-determination suffrage jurisdiction laissez-faire industrialism separtionists totalitarian legislature market liberalism spoils system yellow journalism liberal opportunity cost mercantilism triangular trade liberty partnership military theater majority principle

6 naturalism media scarcity propaganda minority rights stocks renaissance plaintiff supply revolution political party surplus socialism republic union sovereignty treaty welfare parliamentary gov't reformation technology terrorism totalitarian