Twelve Words

That Make A Difference

Analyze• Take it apart

• Chunk it

• Think about the small chunks

• Decompose

• Look deep into it

• Break it down!

Infer• Read between the lines

• Figure it out

• Take what you know plus context clues

• Be a detective

• Make a mental leap

Evaluate• Judge

• What’s good; what’s bad

• Tell me the good and the bad.

Formulate• Create

• Decide

• Come up with

• Figure Out

• Build

• Construct

• Put it all together

Describe• 5 W’s and the H

• Who• What• When• Where• Why• How

• At lease 3 sentences for 5W’s and an H

• 5 sentences for gifted kids

Support• Back it up!

• Prove it!

• Tell why!

• Give reasons!

Explain• 5 W’s and the H

• Who• What• When• Where• Why• How

• At lease 3 sentences for 5W’s and an H

• 5 sentences for gifted kids

Summarize• Retell the KEY points• Short version• Give me the commercial• Just the fact, ma’am• Hit the high points• Shuck it all down to the Cobb County School

District

• Give reasons why things happen

Compare• Find the similarities

• What is the same?

Contrast• Find the differences

• What is different?

Predict• Forecast

• Educated guess

• Conclude

• Look into the future

• What will happen next?

Based on strategies for helping students be successful presented by:

Larry Bell

Multicultural America, Inc.