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Sample Vocabulary Terms

Prepared by Marzano Research Laboratory

May, 2009 Copyright Marzano Research Laboratory, 2009

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TableofContents

LANGUAGEARTSLOWERELEMENTARY.............................................................................................................. 3

LANGUAGEARTSUPPERELEMENTARY............................................................................................................... 6

LANGUAGEARTSMIDDLESCHOOL/JR.HIGHSCHOOL........................................................................................11

LANGUAGEARTSHIGHSCHOOL ........................................................................................................................16

MATHEMATICSLOWERELEMENTARY................................................................................................................21

MATHEMATICSUPPERELEMENTARY.................................................................................................................23

MATHEMATICSMIDDLESCHOOL/JR.HIGHSCHOOL...........................................................................................27

MATHEMATICSHIGHSCHOOL ...........................................................................................................................32

SCIENCELOWERELEMENTARY ..........................................................................................................................37

SCIENCEUPPERELEMENTARY ...........................................................................................................................40

SCIENCEMIDDLESCHOOL/JR.HIGHSCHOOL .....................................................................................................44

SCIENCEHIGHSCHOOL......................................................................................................................................49

SOCIALSTUDIESLOWERELEMENTARY ..............................................................................................................55

SOCIALSTUDIESUPPERELEMENTARY ...............................................................................................................62

SOCIALSTUDIESMIDDLESCHOOL/JR.HIGHSCHOOL .........................................................................................89

SOCIALSTUDIESHIGHSCHOOL........................................................................................................................115

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LanguageArts

LanguageArtsLowerElementary

Alphabet

Author

Back cover

Beginning

Beginning consonant

Blend

Book

Capitalization

Cartoon

Chapter

Character

Composition

Complete sentence

Comprehension

Consonant/consonant blend

Conversation

Cover

Date

Describe/Description

Dictionary

Different

Discussion

Draw/drawing

Ending

Ending consonant

Everyday language

Fairy tale

First name

Folk tale

Follow/give directions

Front cover

Glossary

Group discussion

Guest speaker

Illustrate

Initial

Keyboarding

Language

Last name

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Letter

Letter-sound relationship

Listening skill/ Active listening

Long vowel

Lowercase letter

Magazine

Main character

Main idea

Map

Margin

Mental image

Message

Middle

Movie

Name

Newspaper

Number word

Noun

Order of events

Photograph

Picture book

Picture dictionary

Poem

Predictable

Prewriting/Prewriting strategies

Print

Publish

Purpose

Question

Reread

Retell

Rhyme

Same

Short vowel

Sight word

Sign

Speech

Spelling

Spelling pattern

Symbol

Table of contents

Take turns/Share

Textbook

Theater

Title

Title page

Typing

Uppercase letter

Video/DVD

Villain

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Vocabulary

Vowel

Vowel combination

Vowel sound

Word

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LanguageArtsUpperElementary

Abbreviation

Action word

Actor

Adjective

Adverb

Advertisement

Affix

Animation

Antonym

Apology

Apostrophe

Appendix

Asking permission

Audience

Audiotape

Auxiliary verb

Brainstorm

Capitalization

Card catalogue

Cause and effect

Central idea

Chapter title

Character development

Chart

Checklist

Childrens literature

Chronology

Citation

Closing sentence

Colon

Comma

Command

Commercial

Common noun

Compare

Complete sentence

Complex sentence

Compound word

Concluding statement

Conclusion

Consonant substitution

Construct meaning

Content-area vocabulary

Context clue

Contraction

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Contrast

Cue

Cursive

Custom

Declarative sentence

Decode

Definition

Detail

Diary

Directions

Director

Direct quote

Discussion/discussion leader

Double negative

Draft

Drama

Edit

Email

Encyclopedia

Ending

Essay

Example

Explanation

Expression

Fable

Facial expression

Fantasy

Fiction

First person

Form

Friendly letter

Genre

Gesture

Glossary

Grammar

Graphic artist

Graphic organizer

Graphics

Greeting

Guide words

Heading

Headline

Host/hostess

How question

Humor

Illustration

Imagery

Indentation

Index

Inference

Interjection

Internet

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Interrogative sentence

Introduction

Investigate

Invitation

Irregular plural noun

Journal

Key word

Learning log

Legend

Letter of request

Linking verb

List

Listening comprehension

Literature

Main idea

Meaning clue

Memory aid

Minor character

Miscue

Mood

Motivation

Multimeaning words

Multiple drafts

Multiple sources

Mystery

Myth

Negative

News

Newspaper

Nonfiction

Notes

Noun

Novel

Numerical adjective

Object

Opinion

Oral presentation

Organization

Outline

Pamphlet

Paragraph

Passage

Past tense

Peer review

Pen pal

Period

Personal letter

Personal pronoun

Phone directory

Phonetic analysis

Phrase

Pitch

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Plot

Plot development

Point of view

Posing a question

Plural

Possessive noun

Possessive pronoun

Posture

Preface

Prefix

Preposition

Prepositional phrase

Presentation

Preview

Prior knowledge

Pronoun

Pronounce

Proofread

Prop

Proper noun

Punctuation

Question mark

Quotation

Quotation marks

R-controlled

Rating

Reading strategy

Reading vocabulary

Regular plural noun

Regular verb

Request

Revise

Rhyming dictionary

Role play

Root word

Rules of conversation

Run-on sentence

Scan

Science fiction

Second person

Sensory details

Sentence fragment

Sentence structure

Sequential order

Setting

Short story

Signature

Simile

Singular noun

Singular

Skim

Sound effect

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Source

Special effect

Spoken text

Stay on topic

Story elements

Story map

Story structure

Subject

Subject-verb agreement

Suffix

Summarize

Summary

Summary sentence

Supporting detail

Suspense

Syllabication

Syllable

Symbolism

Synonym

Table

Tall tale

Target language

Tense

Text

Thank you letter

Theme

Theme music

Thesaurus

Third person

Timeline

Tone

Topic sentence

Typeface

Usage

Verb

Voice

Voice level

Volume

Web site

What question

When question

Why question

Where question

Who question

Word choice

Word family

Word search

Written directions

Written exchange

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LanguageArtsMiddleSchool/Jr.HighSchool

Action segment

Active listener

Adjective clause

Adjective phrase

Adverb clause

Adverb phrase

Almanac

Anglo-Saxon affix

Anglo-Saxon root

Argumentation

Assume/assumption

Atlas

Authors purpose

Autobiography

Background knowledge

Bibliography

Biographical sketch

Biography

Body language

Body of the text

Broadcast

Broadcast advertising

Business letter

Camera angle

Caption

Ca