ELA Testing Terms

Infer

• Break it down, examine, give a reason, break apart, think about, give it a reason, take apart
• Read between the lines, draw a conclusion, predict, educated guess, investigate, use context clues, investigate
• Tell  all about, explain, show, illustrate, make a picture (who, what, when, where, why, and how)

Analyze

• Break it down, examine, give a reason, break apart, think about, give it a reason, take apart
• Back it up, prove, give evidence add detail, help, aid
• Tell why, discuss, give details, communicate (who, what, when, where, why, and how)

Evaluate

• Back it up, prove, give evidence, add detail, help, aid
• Alike, similar
• Judge, examine, figure out, think about, solve

Formulate

• Judge, examine, figure out think about, solve
• Build, create, design, put together, make, compose, come up with a solution, produce, compile, strategize
• Guess, forecast, what happens next

Describe

• Tell all about, explain, show, illustrate, make a picture (who, what, when, where, why, and how)
• Alike, similar
• Prove, support, give a reason

Support

• End, predict, close
• Back it up, prove, give evidence, add detail, help, aid
• Different, opposite, differentiate

Explain

• Prove, support, give a reason
• Different, opposite, differentiate
• Tell why, discuss, give details, communicate (who, what, when, where, why, and how)

Summarize

• Choose, make a decision
• Short version, retell, paraphrase, condense, make plain and simple, main idea
• Guess, forecast, what happens next

Compare

• Alike, similar
• Guess, forecast, what happens next
• Different, opposite, differentiate

Contrast

• Alike, similar
• Outline, follow, replicate, list in steps, go over
• Different, opposite, differentiate