Academic Vocabulary for 9th Grade
Listed below are the academic vocabulary words for 9th grade. The words for each subject area are given. Please work to
incorporate a minimum of 2-3 words into your LiveLessons, phone conversations, webmails, and teacher feedback each week throughout the school year.
Check out the Direct Instruction and Practice and Reinforcement pages for ideas on how to teach the words and
integrate them into your curriculum.
incorporate a minimum of 2-3 words into your LiveLessons, phone conversations, webmails, and teacher feedback each week throughout the school year.
Check out the Direct Instruction and Practice and Reinforcement pages for ideas on how to teach the words and
integrate them into your curriculum.
Language Arts |
Algebra 1 |
Biology Analyze: examine the parts of an item and discuss how they are related.
Compare: look at two or more items and show how they are the same of different Contrast: compare two or more items to show differences between them Criticize: give your opinion or judgment about the positive and negative points Define: give the meaning of Describe: write about it, “paint a picture with words.” Do so in a logical sequence. Diagram: Make a drawing, graph, or chart and label its parts. Discuss: talk something over, looking at positive and negative points Enumerate: list facts using numbers Evaluate: give your opinion of the importance of something; give advantages and disadvantages Explain: make something clear that is not understood; tell how something happened or how to do something Hypothesize: think about what would happen if… Illustrate: explain your answer in writing and make it clear using examples, stories, pictures, charts, diagrams Interpret: explain your answer in writing and make it clear Justify: give a reason for or defend something; give evidence List: produce answers in words or sentences and number them Outline: list a plan that gives only the main ideas; summarize showing how the ideas are organized Prove: give evidence or argue that something is true Relate: show how one thing is connected to or similar to another Review: examine and talk about the important parts of something; discuss positive and negative points State: tell; express precisely; sentences should be brief and should omit details Summarize: give only the main points of a thing or event, not details or examples Trace: follow the development of (the history of) something from beginning to end |
World GeographyAnimism
Assimilation Comparative Advantage Coniferous Containerized Convection Converged Demographics Deposition Desalinization Diffusion Divergence Globalization Pandemics Pesticides Protectionism Quaternary Sovereignty Spatial Subcontinent Subsistence Tertiary Totalitarianism Urbanization |
ElectivesApplication
Assessment Calculation Communication Constructive criticism Data Edit Estimate Financial Format Formula Filter Function Hyperlink Landscape Layout Management Merge Organization Orientation Portrait Presentation Procedure Process Proofread Revise Similar Systems Variable |