Grade 2 Read-Aloud

124 Westward Expansion: Supplemental Guide 6 | Westward on the Oregon Trail

Vocabulary Chart for Westward on the Oregon Trail

Core Vocabulary words are in bold.

Multiple Meaning Word Activity word is underlined.

Vocabulary Instructional Activity words have an asterisk (*).

Suggested words to pre-teach are in italics.

Type of Words Tier 3

Domain-Specifi c Words

Tier 2

General Academic Words

Tier 1

Everyday-Speech Words

Understanding

campfires

Oregon

ox/oxen

pioneers

prairie

ruts

scouted

settle/settler

territory*

wagon

westward

tents

tribes

camp/camping

ahead

cattle

hardships*

headed

miserable

across

animal

cow/cows

day/month

mountain

rain

rode

traveler/traveling

wet

wind

Multiple Meaning

herds

scout

storm

trail

tracks

challenge/

challenging

degree

steep

water

Phrases

Captain Jeremiah

Ward

covered wagon

Indian Territory

Native Americans

Oregon Territory

Oregon Trail

prairie schooners

round them up

Sweetwater River

Thomas Lawrence

wagon train

lighten their loads

Cognates

pioneros

territorio*

miserable acruza

animal

montaña