12 Powerful Words

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12 Powerful Words

• Classroom Posters

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12 Powerful Words

• Help all students
• To better understand what each question means
• To become familiar with words that require higher
  order thinking skills
• To relieve test anxiety
• To achieve better on tests

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ANALYZE

• Break apart
• Study pieces

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Compare

• Alike
• All of the ways they are alike

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Contrast

• Different
• All the ways they are different

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Describe

• Tell about
• Tell ALL about

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Evaluate

• Judge
• Tell the importance of in your own words

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Explain

• Tell how
• Tell about it in your own words

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Formulate

• Put together
• Create

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Infer

• Read between the lines
• Make an educated guess

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Predict

• What will happen next?
• Tell what you think might happen

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Summarize

• Sum it up
• Give me the short version

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Support

• Give the facts
• Back up with details

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Trace

• List Steps
• Outline

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Works Cited

• Bell, Larry I. 12 Powerful Words. Manassas,
  Virginia Multicultural America, 2005.
• FCAT Power Words. Sarasota Middle School. 5
  Sept 2008 lthttp//www.sarasotamiddleschool.com/htm
  l/fcat_power_words.html