Summer Packet for EAL Students Moving from 5th to 6th Grade

This is a preview of vocabulary that students will likely meet in the first
few months of 6th grade. It is recommended that students and
parents work together to translate this vocabulary into students
home languages, and discuss some of the topics together in home
languages. This will help students to develop their understanding of
the concepts they will be learning about in 6th grade. Having an
understanding of the concepts in their home languages will greatly help
students when they are expected to learn about them in English.

Humanities (Social Studies & Language)
First unit of the year: What is history?

Students are introduced to the study of history. They will look at
historical events from different perspectives. Students will take on the
role of a historian and write a biography of a family member.

Unit Vocabulary:

Subject
Sequence
Point of view
Introduction
Focus
Comparison
Contrast
Cause
Effect
Resolution
Structure
Organization
Conclusion
History
Perspectives
Communism/Communist
Comrade
Capitalism
Marxist
Reform
Official
Unofficial
Revolution
Uprising
Insight
Connection
Identify
Barracks
Soviet
Tyranny

Humanities (Social Studies & Language)
2nd unit of the year: Pre-History: Fact and Fiction

Students will learn about the evolution of modern humans. Students
will learn how artifacts and fossils help archaeologists and
paleontologists to find out about the past.

Unit Vocabulary:

evolution
organization (of information)
evidence
technology
culture
migrate
hunter and gatherer
society
clan
adept
archeologist
anthropologist
blurb
collate
medium
judgment
insight
explicit
gain
theme
inference
text
analysis



General Science Vocabulary

hypothesis - what you think will happen; an educated guess in a science
experiment

experiment - a test under controlled conditions that is made to better
understand change or test a hypothesis

data - information collected during a scientific experiment

procedure - order of steps that to be completed in a scientific
experiment

observation/observe - to give careful attention to details in a science
experiment often using tools and taking note of details

variable - something that can be changed during an investigation

predict - to make a statement about an outcome before it occurs

conclusion - what you have decided based on the results of your
investigation

mass - the measure of the amount of matter that makes up something

density - how closely packed the particles of a material is; mass per unit
of volume

property - a characteristic which belongs to a group of living or
non-living things