ISASP Vocabulary

Break into parts, tell about the parts, look closely

• Analyze

• Argue

• Classify

• Compare

Outline, list in steps, or follow the path of an event or phenomenon

• Trace

• Formulate

• Analyze

• Justify

Consider the various points of view by presenting all sides of the issue

• Discuss

• Describe

• Interpret

• Outline

Tell a story including a setting, characters, dailogue, and plot; beginning, middle, and end, conflict and resolution

• Write a narrative

• Summarize

• Explain

• Describe

Express your thinking by giving the meaning as you see it

• Interpret

• Support

• Analyze

• Define

Make an educated guess of what will happen next

• Predict

• Take a position

• Infer

• Evaluate

Give examples, pictures, diagrams, or concrete examples to clarify your answer

• Justify

• Illustrate

• Prove

• Relate

Make a claim supported by evidence and reasoning. Take a position or support an opinion

• Compare

• Argue

• Predict

• Prove

Use a specific and shortened form to organize main ideas, supporting details, and examples

• Outline

• Summarize

• Define

• Classify

Read between the lines, what is the hidden meaning

• Infer

• Predict

• Trace

• Support