Intermediate Vocab

This context-based vocabulary worksheet supports students in Grades 5 and 6 as they strengthen reading comprehension, academic vocabulary, and historical understanding through Civil Rights-focused content. By encountering terms such as nonviolent protest, civil disobedience, and equality within a short informational passage, students learn how abstract civic concepts are used in real historical contexts and then apply those terms in their own writing.

Learning Goals

• Vocabulary in Context (Grades 5-6) – Define key Civil Rights terms using clues from an informational passage.
• Abstract Civic Concepts – Develop understanding of ideas like equality, protest, and resistance as they function in history.
• Reading for Meaning – Use surrounding text to infer accurate word meanings.
• Contextual Writing – Apply vocabulary in original sentences connected to real Civil Rights examples.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA and social studies standards.
• Passage-Based Learning – Reinforces vocabulary through meaningful historical context rather than isolated definitions.
• Bridges Reading & Writing – Moves students from comprehension to application for deeper learning.
• Flexible Use – Ideal for Civil Rights units, vocabulary lessons, literacy blocks, or formative assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students build stronger academic vocabulary and civic understanding by learning key Civil Rights terms in context. By defining words through reading and applying them in historically grounded sentences, learners improve comprehension, retention, and confidence using important social studies language. It’s a practical, no-prep resource that works well in both classroom instruction and homeschool learning.

This worksheet is part of our Civil Rights Movement collection.