Grade 2 Read-Aloud

Westward Expansion: Supplemental Guide 8 | Working on the Transcontinental Railroad 165

Vocabulary Chart for Working on the Transcontinental Railroad

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

ancestor

Baltimore

canal

Chinese

continental

Irish

locomotive

Midwest

cheaper

comfortable

convenient*

endured

hardship

immigrant

miserable*

spanned

transportation

across

companies

faster

gold

lay/laid

mountain

rail/railroad

river

workers

Multiple Meaning

ties/spikes

track

journals company

drive

train/trains

Phrases

Central Pacific

Railroad

East Coast/West

Coast

Indian tribes

iron horse

Ling Wei

Mississippi River

Omaha, Nebraska

Sacramento,

California

San Francisco,

California

Sierra Nevada

Mountains

transcontinental

railroad

Union Pacific

Railroad

United States

government

no end in sight

set the record

a great deal

lend a hand

Cognates

canal

continental

conveniente

inmigrante

transportación

acruza

companía/

companies

montaña

tren/trenes