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Waddell Elementary School

Twelve Powerful Words

(Larry I. Bell)

To help increase test scores and close the  achievement gap Larry Bell, has identified the 12 words that need to be in every student’s vocabulary.

 

1. Trace — list in steps

2. Analyze — break apart/break down

3. Infer — read between the lines

4. Evaluate — judge

5. Formulate — create

6. Describe — tell all about it

7. Support — back up with details

8. Explain — tell how

9. Summarize — give me the short version

10. Compare — all the ways they are alike

11. Contrast — all the ways they are different

12. Predict — what will happen next