-to take apart an idea, concept or statement and examine it in detail.
Once you ____ how you built that K'Nex building, we can help other students learn how to make the same building.
What is Analyze?
100
explain the meaning of a word or idea.
How do you ______ the word playful?
What is Define?
100
how things or ideas are not the same.
There is such a big ______ between living in the city and the country!
What is Difference?
100
when one or more things are alike, they look or seem like each other.
Often families have a strong _______ in the way they look.
What is Similarity?
100
a short section of a book, story, or article.
After I read the short ______, I was able to answer the questions about the main character.
What is a Passage?
200
to describe a topics's positive and negative aspects and say how useful or successful it is.
Please _____ the weather outside and tell me if you think we should have recess!
What is Assess?
200
to give detailed reasons using words for an idea, story or experience. Please ______ to me why you think we should not have any homework!
What is Explain?
200
to show the differences between things.
There us such a ______ between the warm water of Florida and the cold water of Maine!
What is Contrast?
200
agreeing with something or someone.
_______, the weather station, Spring is around the corner! I sure hope so!
What is According (to)
200
to give specific examples to show how something may be true; to make something clear like a picture.
To ______ my point, I will find the key ideas in the story.
What is Illustrate?
300
Put items side by side to see their similarities. Please _____ these two cookies and tell me what ingredient you think they share.
What is Compare?
300
to explain the meaning of something, to make it understandable in your own words.
How should I _______ that poem; it's hard to understand!
What is Interpret?
300
to show the differences between things.
You can easily _______ between a young child and a grown man.
What is Distinguish?
300
a word with the same or nearly the same meaning as another word:
pleasant/nice.
What is a Synonym?
300
make a decision about something and then explain that decision. I will _____ if we have time to go to the pool tomorrow once I know what chores we have finished today!
What is Determine?
400
to take apart and describe a concept, idea or thing in great detail.
Please _____ that dessert and tell me how we can make it again!
What is Examine?
400
to give details of how something works or the details of a story or article or passage or feeling.
_____ to me what your house looks like. Use lots of details!
What is Describe?
400
a word that has an opposite meaning from another word:
black/white.
What is an Antonym?
400
to help or assist-- in a text to give examples of why something may be true.
Please ______ your answer by giving evidence. This way I will know you did your work!
What is Support?
400
just give the main points, not the details.
Please ______, I don't have all day and I just want to know the main point!
What is Summarize?
500
the parts of a book or passage that have been created to help you find information: table of contents, headings, glossary,diagrams, charts and maps.
What were the most helpful _________ in the article in that magazine?
What are Text Features?
500
to provide several specific details or reasons.
Can you make a ____ for me so I know all the reasons you want to go to sleep away camp?
What is a List?
500
A text that is usually NOT fiction.
I read an _____ in the paper the other day about the sea turtles. Now I want to go on a trip to Florida!
What is an Article?
500
to persuade, to make someone feel sure of something.
I had to work hard to _______ the kids that staying after school for MTS would be a good use of their time!
What is Convince?
500
All the facts you might find in an article or text.
if you want to have the correct ______ about building a model car, you will need to find a good How-To book.