PSSA Vocabulary

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DESCRIBE

• give specific details
• talk about the weather
• write a book
• think about things carefully

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IDENTIFY

• recognize
• the way you look
• look around
• all about me

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INFER

• make a smart guess
• put away the dishes
• read carefully
• tell a story

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SUMMARIZE

• retell the main points
• add things up
• tell about the summer
• eat a banana

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PREDICT

• say what will happen next
• jump ahead
• sing a song
• go before another one

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EVIDENCE

• the facts in a text
• pretty pictures
• something that is big
• ice cream

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ANALYZE

• to study closely and break apart the text
• take a long walk at the beach
• to think of some questions to ask a friend
• to look around the house

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EVALUATE

• to judge the importance of something
• to compare and contrast
• to look at funny pictures
• to jump up and down on a trampoline