LEAP Verbs

How does this text support your answer?

• To give your opinion

• To justify your answer

  with evidence or a reason

• To give a quote

• To ask a question

to guess or figure out using clues in the text

• exclaim

• explain

• infuse

• infer

the conversation between characters which is put in "quotation marks"

• question

• conversation

• dialogue

• paragraph

break down to examine the important parts to determine the meaning

• conclude

• analyze

• dialogue

• reveal

expand the answer to give more details

• conclude

• develop

• example

• include

The author’s most important idea

• quotes

• main or central idea

• conclusion

• details

Examine in order to note likenesses between two things

• conclusion

• compare

• contrast

• main idea

Examine in order to note significant differences between two or more things

• contrast

• analyze

• dialouge

• compare

the lesson the author is trying to convey or teach

• character traits

• main idea

• detail

• theme

the last paragraph of an essay that restates your main point

• infer

• text evidence

• conclusion

• main idea