12 Powerful Words Vocabulary Practice

What will happen next; in the future

• infer

• summarize

• analyze

• predict

Break apart; think through

• describe

• support

• analyze

• formulate

What is it worth; look closely

• evaluate

• infer

• trace

• contrast

Come up with a plan; make a decision; create

• summarize

• formulate

• support

• describe

Use the details from the text to tell how you know the answer

• support

• compare

• infer

• describe

Read between the lines; use context clues, text, and background knowledge; what you already know

• trace

• analyze

• infer

• predict

Tell who what, when, where, how, and why

• compare

• contrast

• predict

• describe

List in order, sequence, steps

• Compare

• Trace

• Summarize

• Predict

How things are the same, alike, and similar

• Compare

• Contrast

• Evaluate

• Support

Tell the short version; main idea and details

• support

• evaluate

• summarize

• compare