Jargon Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RL.9-10.3

Core Standard

Jargon is language that used within a specific group, industrial sector, or profession. A good example of this is the term that many educators use to indicate that children can be smart in many different ways, through the concept of "multiple intelligences". This is a term that the vast majority of educators will know on sight, but many non-educators will need to have explained to them, at times. We would therefore classify this phrase (multiple intelligences) as jargon. Just like vocabulary your knowledge of jargon vastly improves with your level of experience within that group or profession. This series of worksheets will help students be able to identify jargon and which group or profession the term may best belong to.