12+Powerful+Words

By //Jonathan// With the Reading EOG tests coming up students need to have a clear understanding of the 12 powerful words. How many times have you been asked to “Explain your answer” or to “Support your answer with details from the selection?” The testlets we are given ask many questions like these and the testlets questions are very similar to the questions on the reading EOG. On almost every testlet you’re asked to summarize the selection. Explain and support are just two of the 12 Powerful Words (a group of words that are printed on a chart and hung up on many walls of West Lee classrooms.) Other words on the chart include trace, analyze, infer, evaluate, formulate, describe, summarize, compare, contrast, and predict. Knowing the 12 powerful words, or just knowing the definition of a few of them, will help you answer questions on the reading EOG. If you are asked to predict what will happen next, what will you say? Will you read between the lines or tell what will happen next? It’s important to know what these words mean because a question will have one of these words in it about 75% of the time. Almost every classroom has a chart with all the words and an explanation, so it’s not too late to take a look at the chart and memorize a few of the words.
 * __ The 12 Powerful Words  __**