Understanding Key Analytical Terms

To examine something in detail in order to understand it

• Analyze

• Explain

• Illustrate

• Compare/Contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

To make something clear by using description, relevant facts,

or ideas

• Illustrate

• Explain

• Compare/Contrast

• Interpret

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

To make something more clear or visible

• Compare/Contrast

• Interpret

• Illustrate

• Summarize

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Compare means to note the similarities and/or dissimilarities

between things. Contrast means to only note the dissimilarities

between things.

• Summarize

• Demonstrate

• Compare/Contrast

• Interpret

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

To explain the meaning of something; to present something in

understandable terms

• Summarize

• Demonstrate

• Indicate

• Interpret

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

To briefly share the main points of something

• Summarize

• Demonstrate

• Indicate

• Infer

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

To show; to explain something in clear terms

• Describe

• Demonstrate

• Indicate

• Infer

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

To point out; to show

• Infer

• Describe

• Indicate

• Support

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To figure something out by using evidence and reasoning;

“reading between the lines”

• Describe

• Support

• Define

• Infer

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

To note details about something

• Describe

• Support

• Define

• Convey

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1