ELA Most Powerful Words

to give the short version

• Summarize

• Trace

• Explain

• Describe

to break apart information

• Infer

• Summarize

• Analyze

• Explain

tell all about something with lots of details

• Compare

• Contrast

• Infer

• Describe

to tell what will happen next

• Predict

• Contrast

• Analyze

• Describe

explaining how things are different

• Trace

• Compare

• Contrast

• Infer

picking out what something is

• Identify

• Support

• Formulate

• Summarize

an educated guess

• Support

• Evaluate

• Restate

• Inference

a quote or reference from a piece a passage

• Evaluate

• Citation

• Trace

• Inference

to judge something

• Analyze

• Predict

• Summarize

• Evaluate

tell me all the ways something is alike

• Contrast

• Compare

• Predict

• Explain