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2. Distinguish Perceive or point out a difference.

3. Distinguish If you were their mom, would you be able to tell the difference between the twins? Because the twins are identical, it makes it nearly impossible to distinguish one from the other.

4. Analyze Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of (something especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.

5. Analyze “Our company was supposed to analyze the report.” ●Analyzing the report is searching for the important details or main ideas. ●The company had to analyze the report for mistakes or changes that needed to be made.

6. infer To infer is to deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

7. Infer How do you think the little girl feels? What details help you to infer how she feels?-- ●we can infer that the little girl feels upset. The look on her face, the way she hangs her head, and the way that she drags her teddy bear all give evidence of feeling upset.

8. Synthesize to take ideas from a text and put them together to form the main idea

9. Synthesize After reading this short paragraph, the reader can tell that the author synthesized the text to tell what the main idea of the story is. “Walker’s findings show that ‘young people who regularly play violent computer games have a tendency to be more aggressive than those who do not’.

10. Summarize To give a brief statement of the main points of (something).

11. Summarize The short version of a story. Putting main ideas/important details into your own words. Presents only the most important ideas of a source. The back of a book is a summarization of the story.

12. Differentiate 1. To make (someone or something)different in some way 2. to see or state the difference or differences between two or more things

13. Differentiate I can differentiate between the yellow umbrella and the black umbrellas because the yellow umbrella stands out from all the other umbrellas which makes it different.

14. what do these terms have in common? All of these terms can be used to interpret information and find the meaning of text. They can also be used as strategies when answering text questions and finding facts.