Twelve
Totally
Awesome
Power
Words
100
Outline, list in steps, or follow the path.
What is trace?
100
Back it up or prove it with details.
What is support?
100
Break it into parts, tell about the parts.
What is analyze?
100
Teach me or show me, tell me the steps.
What is explain?
100
Read between the lines, what is the hidden meaning.
What is infer?
200
Tell the main idea, tell the beginning, middle, and end.
What is summarize?
200
Judge it, tell the good and the bad.
What is evaluate?
200
Tell all the ways they are the same.
What is compare?
200
Create, put together.
What is formulate?
200
Tell all the ways they are different.
What is contrast?
300
Tell about, paint a picture with words.
What is describe?
300
What will happen next.
What is predict?
300
Trace.
What is outlining, listing in steps, or following the path?
300
Analyze
What is breaking it into parts, and telling about the parts?
300
Infer
What is reading between the lines and finding the hidden meaning?
400
Evaluate.
What is judging it and telling the good and the bad?
400
Formulate.
What is creating, or putting together?
400
Describe
What is telling about or painting a picture with words?
400
Support
What is backing it up or proving it with details?
400
Explain.
What is teaching me or telling me the steps?
500
Summarize.
What is telling me the main idea and the beginning, middle and end?
500
Compare.
What is telling me all the ways they are the same?
500
Contrast
What is telling me all the ways they are different?
500
Predict
What will happen next?
500
Name all twelve power words.
What is trace, support, analyze, explain, infer, summarize, evaluate, compare, formulate, contrast, describe, and predict?
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