1. 12 Powerful words

2. What are the 12 powerful words?
The 12 powerful words are words that are on many assessments, tests, and quizzes. In order to answer the question, you need to know what these words mean.

3. Compare Ways they are the same
Real life example: Compare soccer and basketball

4. Explain To tell the steps
Real Life Example: Explain how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

5. Analyze Break down into parts
Real Life Example: Analyze the science test by breaking it into sections and looking at what you got wrong

6. Support
Prove
Real Life Example: Support your answer by giving 3 examples

7. Formulate Put together
Real Life Example: Formulate a plan with your friends to raise enough money to go to the concert

8. Infer Read between the lines
Real Life Example: If someone slams their bedroom door shut we can infer they are angry

9. Describe
Tell about
Real Life Example: Describe your day at Hershey Park

10. Summarize Tell the main part(s)
Real Life Example: In 140 characters (think Twitter) tell your friend about your first day of school

11. Contrast Ways they are different
Real Life Example: Contrast elementary school and middle school

12. Trace
Outline
Real Life Example: Trace the history of your favorite band` by making a timeline

13. Predict Educated guess
Real Life Experience: Predict what is going to happen to the “bad” guy in the movie

14. Evaluate Tell the good and bad
Real Life Example: Evaluate the lunches here at CDMS