Academic Vocabulary List by Jim Burke

What is the Vocabulary List? The following quotation comesfrom Jim Burke’s home page.“A thorough survey of various textbooks, assignments, contentarea standards, and examinations yields the following list of words.You cannot expect to succeed on assignments if you do notunderstand the directions. The words fall into several categories,which are not identified on this sheet: nouns (e.g., What you reador create); verbs (e.g., What the assignment asks you to do);adjectives (e.g., specific details about what you must do); andadverbs, which provide very important information about how todo the assignment.”...
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Academic Vocabulary List by Jim BurkeAcademic Vocabulary List by Jim Burke© Jim Burke: Visit www.englishcompanion.com for more information. Teachers may copy for classroom use. Academic Vocabulary List [CATEGORIZED] The Academic Vocabulary List has been categorized by parts of speech; or in other words, into grammatical categories or word groups. by Rick Smith © Rick Smith: Visit www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/acvocabulary2.pdf Teachers may copy for classroom use. Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................. 2PREFACE ..................................................................................................................................................... 3ACADEMIC VOCABULARY LIST .......................................................................................................... 4 WORD LIST .................................................................................................................................................. 4SUFFIXES [FORMING PARTS OF SPEECH] ........................................................................................ 6COMMON PREFIXES AND MEANINGS ................................................................................................ 9COMMON SUFFIXES AND MEANINGS .............................................................................................. 11ACADEMIC VOCABULARY LIST ........................................................................................................ 13 COMPLETE WORD LIST WITH PARTS OF SPEECH [ NOUNS, VERBS, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS ] .................. 13 2 PrefaceWhat is the Vocabulary List? The following quotation comesfrom Jim Burke’s home page.“A thorough survey of various textbooks, assignments, contentarea standards, and examinations yields the following list of words.You cannot expect to succeed on assignments if you do notunderstand the directions. The words fall into several categories,which are not identified on this sheet: nouns (e.g., What you reador create); verbs (e.g., What the assignment asks you to do);adjectives (e.g., specific details about what you must do); andadverbs, which provide very important information about how todo the assignment.”The Academic Vocabulary List can be obtained from: www.englishcompanion.comUpon arriving at Mr. Burke’s home page, scroll down and click on: NEW: Academic Vocabulary 2.0 (Expanded)I have taken Jim’s Academic Vocabulary List (pages 3-4) andcategorized the words into parts of speech (pages 5-34). Insome cases, I’ve expanded the root to show word usage indifferent forms.The purpose of compiling this list is to make it so the teacher willbe able to take all the words in the Academic Vocabulary Listand put them in a format that will make it easier to integrate theminto a usable vocabulary program, or just to use in daily lessons.This format puts all the words’ parts of speech at your fingertips.I hope this helps you as you help students! Good luck!Rick Smith 3Academic VocabularyA thorough survey of various textbooks, assignments, content area standards, andexaminations yields the following list of words. You cannot expect to succeed on assignments ifyou do not understand the directions. The words fall into several categories, which are notidentified on this sheet: nouns (e.g., What you read or create); verbs (e.g., What the assignmentasks you to do); adjectives (e.g., specific details about what you must do); and adverbs, whichprovide very important information about how to do the assignment. 1. abbreviate 43. chart 85. correspond 127. essential 2. abstract 44. chronology 86. credible 128. establish 3. according 45. citation 87. credit 129. estimate 4. acronym 46. cite 88. criteria 130. evaluate 5. address 47. claim 89. critique 131. event 6. affect 48. clarify 90. crucial 132. evidence 7. alter 49. class 91. cumulative 133. exaggerate 8. always ...