Analyze/Facts
Evaluated/Explain/Identify
Describe/Justify/Infer
Compare & Contrast
Summarize/Predict
100
When you need to break a larger idea down into sections and explain how each part relates to the others
What is analyze?
100
to find or recognize whatever the question is asking for
What is identify?
100
to give specific and relevant details about something
What is to describe?
100
A common graphic organizer for compare and contrast questions.
What is a venn diagram?
100
to make a guess about what will happen next
What is predict?
200
Statements that can be proven as true or false
What are facts?
200
similar to describe, but it involves a little bit more description of why something is the way it is
What is explain?
200
to provide factual information and evidence to show why something is right or true
What is justify?
200
to say how they are similar
What is compare?
200
to write about the main points in a brief form
What is summarize?
300
means the separation of a whole into parts
What is analyze?
300
to make a thoughtful judgment about it
What is evaluate?
300
to make an educated guess
What is infer?
300
Compare the The Boy in the Striped Pajamas with Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Both texts are about death, the holocaust, family, etc.
300
Summarize the plot of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Bruno and his family move from Berlin to near a concentration camp. Bruno becomes friends with a Jewish boy named Shmuel. . . .
400
Use these to support your argument
What are facts?
400
Explain why the Nazis justified sending certain people to concentration camps.
The Nazis viewed certain people as inferior or blamed them for Germany's problems.
400
It's your birthday and your mom won't let you come home till 6 p.m. Your friends have been whispering and smiling a lot lately. What can you infer?
My mom and friends are likely throwing me a surprise party.
400
to say how two things are different
What is contrast?
400
Summarize the plot of The Pearl.
Kino enjoys a morning with his family. He finds the Great Pearl. . . .
500
State one fact about D-Day during World War II.
The Allies used fake tanks to trick the Germans. It's when the Allies invaded France. . . .
500
Identify the grammatical error in this sentence: Dolphins are beautiful, they are my favorite animal.
There should not be a comma between the two clauses. It is a comma splice. Instead, there should be a period or semicolon.
500
Describe the character traits of Kino.
Kino is ambitious, greedy, hardworking, etc.
500
Contrast the literary characters Kino from The Pearl with Charlie from Flowers for Algernon.
e.g., Kino is greedy and selfish while Charlie is caring and selfless.
500
Predict what will happen after end of the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Bruno's parents will leave the concentration camps, etc.
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