Academic Vocabulary List by Jim Burke Mã A774299

Academic 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.

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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................2

PREFACE .....................................................................................................................................................3

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY LIST ..........................................................................................................4

WORD LIST..................................................................................................................................................4

SUFFIXES [FORMING PARTS OF SPEECH] ........................................................................................6

COMMON PREFIXES AND MEANINGS................................................................................................9

COMMON SUFFIXES AND MEANINGS ..............................................................................................11

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY LIST ........................................................................................................13

COMPLETE WORD LIST WITH PARTS OF SPEECH [ NOUNS, VERBS, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS ]..................13

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Preface

What is the Vocabulary List? The following quotation comes from Jim Burke’s home page.

“A thorough survey of various textbooks, assignments, content area standards, and examinations yields the following list of words. You cannot expect to succeed on assignments if you do not understand the directions. The words fall into several categories, which are not identified on this sheet: nouns (e.g., What you read or create); verbs (e.g., What the assignment asks you to do); adjectives (e.g., specific details about what you must do); and adverbs, which provide very important information about how to do the assignment.”

The Academic Vocabulary List can be obtained from:

www.englishcompanion.com

Upon 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) and categorized the words into parts of speech (pages 5-34). In some cases, I’ve expanded the root to show word usage in different forms.

The purpose of compiling this list is to make it so the teacher will be able to take all the words in the Academic Vocabulary List and put them in a format that will make it easier to integrate them into 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