CAASPP Key words

compare

• find likeness or see how two or more things are the same.

• find differences or how two or more things are different.

comprehend

• to break something down

• to understand a story/passage; find meaning

contrast

• find likeness or how two or more things are the same

• find differences or how two or more things are different.

demonstrate

• show clearly

• deduce or conclude

describe

• take or pull out

• tell the facts, details

determine

• decide what is correct

• find value

develop

• elaborate or expand

• mention

distinguish

• set or tell two things apart from each other

• make a plan

draw, or draw conclusions

• to make an idea or pull an idea out of a reading text

• draw a pretty, pretty picture of a beautiful butterfly

explain

• to draw

• to make plain, or define something. to tell what you are thinking.