Medical Vocabulary Worksheet

Grades

Standards

L.3.6

L.3.4.A

Formats

PRINT+DIGITAL RESOURCE

This learning resource is available in interactive and printable formats. The interactive worksshet can be played online and assigned to students. The Printable PDF version can be downloaded and printed for completion by hand.

About the "Medical Vocabulary" Worksheet

Medical Vocabulary is an engaging language arts worksheet designed to enhance students' understanding of health-related terminology. This interactive and printable worksheet presents learners with a series of sentences containing bolded medical or health-related words. Each sentence provides context for a specific term, challenging students to deduce its meaning based on how it's used. The exercise consists of eight questions, each followed by three multiple-choice options, allowing students to select the most accurate definition for the highlighted word.

The worksheet covers a range of medical terms such as "prescribed," "mending," "virus," "prevent," "patient," "deteriorating," "swollen," and "fatal." By engaging with these words in context, students not only expand their vocabulary but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze sentence structure and context clues to determine the most appropriate meaning. This activity serves as an excellent introduction to medical terminology while simultaneously improving reading comprehension and deductive reasoning skills.

What will your child learn through this worksheet?

Understanding of common medical and health-related terms
Ability to use context clues to deduce word meanings
Improvement in reading comprehension skills
Development of critical thinking in language analysis

Learning Outcomes

Cognitive

Correctly identify the meanings of at least 6 out of 8 medical terms based on context
Demonstrate improved ability to use context clues in determining word meanings

Psychomotor

Enhance fine motor skills through precise selection of multiple-choice answers
Improve reading fluency by engaging with complex sentences

Affective

Develop confidence in approaching unfamiliar vocabulary
Foster a positive attitude towards learning about health and medicine

Interpersonal/Social

Improve communication skills related to health topics
Enhance ability to understand and discuss medical information in social contexts

Common Core Standards Covered

L.3.4.a

Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

L.3.6

Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).