What You Don’t Know

Worksheet Description

This Technical Meanings worksheet is a tool for enhancing vocabulary and comprehension skills, specifically focused on understanding the technical meanings of words. As students read an assigned text, they are instructed to jot down any words whose meanings are not known to them. For each word listed, the worksheet prompts the students to contemplate and respond to three questions: whether they think the word has a technical meaning, what they think it means, and why they believe this. The format encourages critical thinking and active engagement with the text.

The worksheet is teaching students to identify potentially unfamiliar words and critically evaluate their meanings using context clues from the text. It helps students to consider the distinction between everyday meanings and technical meanings that words might have in specific fields. The exercise also prompts students to justify their thoughts, thereby practicing inference and deduction skills. By completing this activity, students become more adept at navigating complex texts and expand their academic vocabulary.