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# Domain Vocabulary Across Subject Areas

Acquire and use accurately academic and domain-specific vocabulary relevant to grade-level topics, including words that signal precise meaning in informational texts across subject areas

Subject: English · Area: Vocabulary · Ages 9 to 11
Page: https://lightmysky.com/learn/english/domain-vocabulary-across-subject-areas-mt_WzOyJFKDIu

## Ready when they can

- Identify and define academic vocabulary (e.g., compare, contrast, summarise, evidence, interpret) used across multiple subject areas and use these words accurately in discussion and writing
- Determine the meaning of domain-specific words encountered in science, social studies, or maths texts (e.g., ecosystem, democracy, numerator) using context, glossaries, and prior knowledge
- Use newly acquired academic and domain-specific vocabulary in sentences that demonstrate understanding of precise meaning and appropriate context

## Lesson: Every Subject Has Its Own Words

Every subject has words that carry an exact meaning. Some words, like compare, contrast, summarize, evidence, and interpret, show up in science, social studies, and math alike. They help you think clearly no matter what you are studying.

**Example.** Your science book says: 'A pond ecosystem includes the fish, plants, water, and rocks that all depend on each other.' You may not know the word ecosystem, but the sentence lists fish, plants, water, and rocks working together. That context tells you an ecosystem is a group of living and nonliving things connected in one place.

*(drawing: When you hit a new word: read the sentence, guess its meaning, check a glossary or dictionary, then confirm you were right.)*

Each subject has its own key words too. Science uses words like habitat and ecosystem. Social studies uses words like democracy and government. Math uses words like numerator and denominator. Learning these words helps you understand the ideas behind them.

**Tip.** After you learn a new word, use it in your own sentence right away. Writing 'The desert habitat has very little water' locks in the meaning better than just reading a definition.

**Recap.** Subject words carry exact meanings, so use context clues to figure them out, then use the word yourself.

## Practice

8 questions on this page, each with its working shown.

## Needs first

- [Discussing and Questioning New Words](https://lightmysky.com/learn/english/discussing-and-questioning-new-words-mt_6-MYToNZ39)
- [Defining Words](https://lightmysky.com/learn/english/defining-words-mt_f_dMmvzxwo)
- [Vocabulary: historical thinking](https://lightmysky.com/learn/history/vocabulary-historical-thinking-mt_VXcua6-txq)

## Opens up

- [Literary Evidence in Writing](https://lightmysky.com/learn/english/literary-evidence-in-writing-mt_sdmm_m60qX)
- [Inferring characters' feelings and motives](https://lightmysky.com/learn/english/inferring-characters-feelings-and-motives-mt_ukLvUD8DFA)