Evaluating Details

If you are trying to put text evidence in your response, you are...

• Describing

• Tracing

• Citing

• Interpreting

If you are studying the individual parts of something, you are...

• Comparing

• Describing

• Analyzing

• Discussing

If you are revealing certain details and characteristics about something, you are...

• Describing

• Interpreting

• Predicting

• Analyzing

We look at the credentials of an author when evaluating a website. What does credentials mean?

• what the author's financial background and income are

• proof of qualification for a particular job, including a list of awards received, books published or degrees earned
  

• whether the author is a United States citizen

• evidence that the author used his own ideas and facts and did not copy from other sources

When we say that a website is a credible source we mean:

• the source is unbelievable and fantastic

• it is unreliable and false

• the source is appropriate for a business report

• it is believable and trustworthy

When you are identifying the main idea of a passage, you are...

• Summarizing

• Analyzing

• Evaluating

• Interpreting

If you are determining the author's purpose in a text, you are...

• Describing

• Evaluating

• Inferring

• Summarizing

When you are looking for evidence to support a claim, you are...

• Citing

• Predicting

• Describing

• Analyzing

If you are examining the tone of a piece of writing, you are...

• Interpreting

• Evaluating

• Describing

• Summarizing

When you are comparing two characters in a story, you are...

• Analyzing

• Describing

• Contrasting

• Evaluating