Power Verbs in Text Analysis

To show how two characters are alike and different, you would ________ them.

• support

• compare and contrast

• describe

• summarize

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

When you provide reasons and evidence to back up a claim in an essay, you ________ your thesis.

• explain

• analyze

• support

• trace

To make something clear and provide details about how or why it works, you ________ it.

• summarize

• explain

• evaluate

• infer

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

When you give a brief overview of the main points of a text, you ________ it.

• describe

• formulate

• summarize

• analyze

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

To figure out something that is not directly stated in the text by using clues, you ________.

• infer

• predict

• trace

• support

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.4.4B

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.3.4A

When you provide vivid details to create a picture in the reader's mind, you ________ something.

• compare

• describe

• evaluate

• formulate

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

To break down a text or idea into its parts and examine how they relate to each other, you ________ it.

• analyze

• predict

• support

• trace

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.4.4B

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.3.3D

Based on the information in the text, to guess what might happen next, you ________.

• explain

• predict

• evaluate

• summarize

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.4.4B

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

To judge the value or effectiveness of something in the text, you ________ it.

• describe

• analyze

• evaluate

• compare

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

To follow the development or progression of an idea or event throughout the text, you ________ it.

• infer

• formulate

• trace

• explain

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.4.4B

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.3A