4th Grade Vocabulary
Dear Fourth Grade,
In an effort to continue our inquiry work around the Revolutionary War I asked both classes which words keep on coming up for them when they are researching the Revolutionary War.
Words generally come into three categories. Words that only come up within a specific topic, (*Think specific scientific terms) words that can be found in several topics, (*scaffolding for example) and words that are common in our everyday conversation.
Here are the words what we call tier 2 or 3 words. Words that are very specific to the Revolutionary war and also may pop up in other specific topics.
- militia
- declaration
- governor
- delegates
- tyranny
- legislature
- revolution
- minuteman
- regiment
- amendment
- plantation
- stand trial
- transcontinental
- patriot
- loyalist
Over the next few weeks we will be diving deep into their meanings, roots, suffixes, and related words. I will give them a vocabulary matching test where they need to match each word up with its definition.
If you are curious to learn more about tiers of words this is a nice quick read.
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