Direction Words Are Your Guide!

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Direction Words Are Your Guide!

CRCT Vocabulary Practice
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On the CRCT,EXPLAIN means

• In your own words, tell how or why
• Tell about
• Discuss

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On the CRCT,SUMMARIZE means

• Give the short version
• Tell the main ideas or the most important parts
• Sum it up

So, what happened was . . .
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On the CRCT,COMPARE means

• Give all the likenesses or similarities between
  two or more things
• How are they alike?

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On the CRCT,CONTRAST means

• Tell all of the differences between two or more
  ideas
• How are they different?

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On the CRCT,DESCRIBE means

• Tell about using the five senses (touch, smell,
  scent, sound, and look)
• Paint a picture using words

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On the CRCT Conclusion means

• The end or the close
• The final part
• The result
• The outcome
• What is the conclusion of the story?

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On the CRCT,PREDICT means

• Tell what you think will happen next
• Make a guess about
• the next event
• Think ahead

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On the CRCT,SUPPORT means

• Back up with details
• Give reasons for
• Give the facts about
• Defend your
• ideas/ beliefs

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On the CRCT,EVALUATE means

• Tell the value of
• In your words, tell the good and bad parts
• Put in rank order
• Judge or rate

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On the CRCT,ANALYZE means

• Break into parts
• Study the individual pieces
• Take apart
• Look at closer

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On the CRCT,INFER means

• Read between the lines
• Make an educated guess
• Look for hidden information
• Figure out
• Be a detective!

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On the CRCT,FORMULATE means

• Put together
• Come up with
• Create
• Make
• Design

Well, in my opinion . . .
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On the CRCT,TRACE means

• Write in order from beginning to end
• List in steps
• Outline
• Track or follow

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On the CRCT,COMPOUND means

• More than one
• Look for two!
• Compound subject? Compound predicate? Compound
  sentence?

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On the CRCT, the QUOTIENT is

• The answer to a division problem!
• 8 4 2

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On the CRCT, DIVIDEND means

• Divide this number
• Its under the division bar!
• Its probably the largest number!
• It comes first in the division sentence! 45 9
  5

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On the CRCT, a DIVISOR is

• the number you are dividing by
• the number of groups you are creating when you
  divide
• 16 2 8
• The number that sits outside the division bar!

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On the CRCT, DIFFERENCE means

• The difference is the answer to a subtraction
  problem!
• 24 14 10

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On the CRCT, PRODUCT means

• The answer to a multiplication problem!
• 5 X 6 30

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On the CRCT,SUM means

• Add the numbers together to get your answer!
• The answer to an addition problem 5 10 15

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On the CRCT,BEST choice means

• The might be more than one that works, but which
  one works better than all the others?

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On the CRCT,Also watch for

• Which does NOT
• Which has the MOST
• Which is BEST
• You might see questions about content written two
  different ways on the same test!

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On the CRCT,

• you are going to be a star!!!
• Good Luck!