Understanding Text
Analyzing Text
Supporting Ideas
Themes & Concepts
100

Tell the facts, details

Describe
100

Break something down into parts

Analyze

100

Knowledge on which to base a belief

Evidence

100

Most important point the author makes

Central Idea

200

Find, point out, cite

Identify

200

Find likeness

Compare

200

Isolated facts that support ideas

Details

200

A unified idea

Theme

300

Make plain or define

Explain

300

Find differences

Contrast

300

Hold up, prove, help

Support

300

The vantage point from which a story is told

Point of View

400
Make a short statement of the main points

Summarize

400

Deduce; Conclude; use information to make an educated guess

Infer

400

Quote

Cite

400

a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

Inference

500

Put in different words

Paraphrase

500

Combine to form a more complex problem

Synthesize

500

Summing up of an argument or text

Conclusions

500

the action of explaining the meaning of something

Interpretation