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Free 9th Grade Academic Word List Practice 1 Worksheet

Students work with fifteen high-frequency academic words drawn from the Academic Word List, the words that appear across textbooks, exam questions and essays in every subject: analyze, significant, consistent, evident, interpret, context, establish, factor, require, vary, indicate, assess, derive, principle and specific. They match words to meanings, use them in context, build word families and rewrite everyday sentences in academic register. Confident use of these words lifts writing in English, Science and Humanities alike.

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Grade
9th Grade
Subject
English
Topic
Vocabulary
Difficulty
Level 2 · Standard
Estimated time
20 minutes
Curriculum
Texas grade levels (TEKS)
Questions
15
Answers
Included, with working
Format
PDF (A4), print or complete online

Students will practice

  • defining high-frequency academic words
  • using academic vocabulary in context
  • building word families (noun, verb, adjective forms)
  • rewriting everyday language in academic register

Curriculum: Texas grade levels (TEKS). We show specific outcome codes only where they have been verified against the official curriculum document.

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Completed: Academic Word List Practice 1

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9th Grade students (typically ages 14–15) working on vocabulary. It is pitched at level 2 · standard.

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Success TutoringWorksheets9th Grade · English · Vocabulary

Academic Word List Practice 1

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Academic words are the words of explanation and argument. Keep a list of the ones you meet in other subjects this week.

Part A: Meanings

Circle the best meaning for each bolded word.

1.To analyze something is to:
  1. Adescribe it briefly
  2. Bbreak it into parts to understand how it works
  3. Cagree with it
  4. Dmemorize it
2.A significant result is one that is:
  1. Asmall and easily ignored
  2. Bimportant or meaningful
  3. Csurprising but irrelevant
  4. Ddifficult to read
3.If data are consistent, they:
  1. Achange unpredictably
  2. Bfollow the same pattern each time
  3. Ccome from one source only
  4. Dare always correct
4.Something that is evident is:
  1. Ahidden
  2. Bclear and easily seen or understood
  3. Cdoubtful
  4. Dcomplicated
5.To interpret a graph is to:
  1. Adraw it
  2. Bexplain what it means
  3. Ccopy it
  4. Dcolor it in

Part B: Words in context

Complete each sentence with the best word from the box: context, establish, factor, require, vary, indicate. Use each word once.

6.The quotation makes more sense when you read it in (answer space): the sentences around it change its meaning.
7.Before drawing conclusions, the scientists had to (answer space) that their equipment was accurate.
8.Lack of sleep was one (answer space) in the team's poor performance; nerves were another.
9.The experiment will (answer space) at least three trials to be reliable.
10.Rainfall figures (answer space) greatly between the coast and the inland towns.
11.The dark clouds (answer space) that a storm is approaching.

Part C: Word families

Academic words usually come in families. Knowing the noun, verb and adjective forms lets you use the word in any sentence.

12.Match each verb to its noun form.
  • analyze
  • define
  • assess
  • vary
  • respond
  • derive
  • assessment
  • response
  • variation
  • analysis
  • derivation
  • definition
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