12 Powerful Words, match to definitions

Analyze

• Break it down into parts. Tell about the parts.
• Back up an answer with details. Prove. Provide evidence.
• Give the short version: main idea + the beginning, middle, end.
• Take your best guess on what will happen next.

Describe

• Tell about it. Give details about it. Paint a picture with words.
• Break it down into parts. Tell about the parts.
• Back up an answer with details. Prove. Provide evidence.
• Give the short version: main idea + the beginning, middle, end.

Evaluate

• Tell the good and the bad. Judge it.
• Tell about it. Give details about it. Paint a picture with words.
• Break it down into parts. Tell about the parts.
• Back up an answer with details. Prove. Provide evidence.

Formulate

• Create. Put together.
• Tell the good and the bad. Judge it.
• Tell about it. Give details about it. Paint a picture with words.
• Break it down into parts. Tell about the parts.

Infer

• Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning?
• Create. Put together.
• Tell the good and the bad. Judge it.
• Tell about it. Give details about it. Paint a picture with words.

Trace

• List in steps. Outline. Explain the development of. Follow (or explain) the path.
• Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning?
• Create. Put together.
• Tell the good and the bad. Judge it.

Compare

• Tell all the ways they are the same.
• List in steps. Outline. Explain the development of. Follow (or explain) the path.
• Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning?
• Create. Put together.

Contrast

• Tell all the ways they are different.
• Tell all the ways they are the same.
• List in steps. Outline. Explain the development of. Follow (or explain) the path.
• Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning?

Explain

• Tell how something happened. Tell the steps.
• Tell all the ways they are different.
• Tell all the ways they are the same.
• List in steps. Outline. Explain the development of. Follow (or explain) the path.

Predict

• Take your best guess on what will happen next.
• Tell how something happened. Tell the steps.
• Tell all the ways they are different.
• Tell all the ways they are the same.