The 12 power words to discuss with your students as they are used in all standardized tests and classroom quizzes:
12 Powerful Words with WORD STUDENT FRIENDLY PHRASE
1. Trace: List in steps (Trace the path of Lewis and Clark with cartography details from the expedition).
2. Analyze: Break apart (Analyze Sacajawea's importance to the Lewis and Clark expedition).
3. Infer: Read between the lines (Portraits of Lewis and Clark are available, but not even one portrait of Sacajawea was ever made, infer the role of women and especially first citizen women, during their generation and how it may influence why the portrait was not made).
4. Evaluate: Judge (Evaluate the importance of language when meeting first citizens during the exploration of Lewis and Clark and their mission to present themselves and their entourage as a peaceful mission).
5. Formulate: Create (Formulate what would have happened to the idea of the Louisiana Purchase, it's role in American history, and possible after effects in politics if the Lewis and Clark expedition had not returned safely to the White House).
6. Describe: Tell all about (Describe, using evidence from the writings of Lewis and Clark, the trip through the Rockies and arriving at the Pacific Ocean).
7. Support: Back up with details (Support the political agenda of discovery based on westward expansion because of Lewis and Clark's safe return).
8. Explain: Tell how (Explain how Lewis and Clark prepared for their expedition and exploration of the Louisiana Purchase Territory).
9. Summarize: Give me the short version (Summarize the training of Lewis and Clark and their preparations before leaving on their expedition of the Louisiana Purchase Territory).
10.Compare: All the ways they are alike (Compare the personalities and roles Lewis and Clark and what did they have in common?)
11. Contrast: All the ways they are different (Contrast the different roles of Lewis and Clark and how did these difference help the expedition to succeed?)
12. Predict: What will happen next (Before reading the text about the expedition, but after reading about the the planning and the preparations of the expedition, what do you predict could be some of the challenges for such an adventure?)
Practice these words with your children at home and help them reword questions and directions to better understand the academic language of the 12 power words and how they could better answer the questions from homework and classwork sent home. More information is on line in both song and video formats.
12 Powerful Words with WORD STUDENT FRIENDLY PHRASE
1. Trace: List in steps (Trace the path of Lewis and Clark with cartography details from the expedition).
2. Analyze: Break apart (Analyze Sacajawea's importance to the Lewis and Clark expedition).
3. Infer: Read between the lines (Portraits of Lewis and Clark are available, but not even one portrait of Sacajawea was ever made, infer the role of women and especially first citizen women, during their generation and how it may influence why the portrait was not made).
4. Evaluate: Judge (Evaluate the importance of language when meeting first citizens during the exploration of Lewis and Clark and their mission to present themselves and their entourage as a peaceful mission).
5. Formulate: Create (Formulate what would have happened to the idea of the Louisiana Purchase, it's role in American history, and possible after effects in politics if the Lewis and Clark expedition had not returned safely to the White House).
6. Describe: Tell all about (Describe, using evidence from the writings of Lewis and Clark, the trip through the Rockies and arriving at the Pacific Ocean).
7. Support: Back up with details (Support the political agenda of discovery based on westward expansion because of Lewis and Clark's safe return).
8. Explain: Tell how (Explain how Lewis and Clark prepared for their expedition and exploration of the Louisiana Purchase Territory).
9. Summarize: Give me the short version (Summarize the training of Lewis and Clark and their preparations before leaving on their expedition of the Louisiana Purchase Territory).
10.Compare: All the ways they are alike (Compare the personalities and roles Lewis and Clark and what did they have in common?)
11. Contrast: All the ways they are different (Contrast the different roles of Lewis and Clark and how did these difference help the expedition to succeed?)
12. Predict: What will happen next (Before reading the text about the expedition, but after reading about the the planning and the preparations of the expedition, what do you predict could be some of the challenges for such an adventure?)
Practice these words with your children at home and help them reword questions and directions to better understand the academic language of the 12 power words and how they could better answer the questions from homework and classwork sent home. More information is on line in both song and video formats.