Command Words

Analyze

• Set out purposes or reasons / make the relationships between things evident / provide why and/or how and support with relevant evidence

• examine something in detail to determine its meaning, identify its elements and determine the relationship between them

• make an informed judgement

• select and present the main points, without detail

Assess

• identify/comment on similarities and/or differences

• express in clear terms

• apply knowledge and understanding to situations where there are a range of valid responses in order to make proposals

• make an informed judgement

Compare

• take forward to a more advanced stage by expanding or building upon given information

• review and respond to given information

• investigate closely, in detail

• identify/comment on similarities and/or differences

Consider

• review and respond to given information

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something

• produce an answer by referring to reading material or recall from memory (depending on how the question is framed)

• show how or give an example

Contrast

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something

• identify/comment on differences

• write about issue(s) or topic(s) in depth in a structured way

• support a case with evidence/reasoning

Demonstrate

• name/select/recognise

• examine something in detail to determine its meaning, identify its elements and determine the relationship between them

• show how or give an example

• set out purposes or reasons / make the relationships between things evident / provide why and/or how and support with relevant evidence

Describe

• state the points of a topic / give characteristics and main features

• produce an answer by referring to reading material or recall from memory (depending on how the question is framed)

• express in clear terms

• review and respond to given information

Develop

• apply knowledge and understanding to situations where there are a range of valid responses in order to make proposals

• write about issue(s) or topic(s) in depth in a structured way

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something

• take forward to a more advanced stage by expanding or building upon given information

Discuss

• review and respond to given information

• write about issue(s) or topic(s) in depth in a structured way

• make an informed judgement

• show how or give an example

Evaluate

• select and present the main points, without detail

• write about issue(s) or topic(s) in depth in a structured way

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something

• express in clear terms