Tier 2 Words

Understand

• Show the explanation of something

• Make something less confusing

• Know the meaning of

• Cause something to grow and become more elaborate

Demonstrate

• Show the explanation of something

• Cause something to grow and become more elaborate

• Conclusion drawn from what I know and what the text says

• To decide on or explain the meaning of. People will have different perspectives when they do this.

Clarify

• Know the meaning of

• To create something

• Correct/precise

• Make something less confusing

Develop

• Show the explanation of something

• Cause something to grow and become more elaborate

• To decide on or explain the meaning of. People will have different perspectives when they do this.

• Examine and explain something

Determine

• Reach, make, or come to a decision about something

• Correct/precise

• Establish who or what something is

• To decide on or explain the meaning of. People will have different perspectives when they do this.

Accurately

• Conclusion drawn from what I know and what the text says

• Break something into smaller pieces to better understand it

• Know the meaning of

• Correct/precise

Inference/Infer

• Break something into smaller pieces to better understand it

• Conclusion drawn from what I know and what the text says

• To create something

• Examine and explain something

Decode

• Show the explanation of something

• Examine and explain something

• Break something into smaller pieces to better understand it

• Know the meaning of

Identify

• To create something

• Establish who or what something is

• To decide on or explain the meaning of. People will have different perspectives when they do this.

• Reach, make, or come to a decision about something

Interpret

• Examine and explain something

• To create something

• Conclusion drawn from what I know and what the text says

• To decide on or explain the meaning of. People will have different perspectives when they do this.