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Enhancing Student Understanding with 12 Powerful Words Posters

Utilize these 12 Powerful Words posters in your classroom to help students better comprehend questions, develop higher-order thinking skills, reduce test anxiety, and improve test performance.

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Enhancing Student Understanding with 12 Powerful Words Posters

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  1. 12 Powerful Words Classroom Posters

  2. 12 Powerful Words Help all students: • To better understand what each question means • To become familiar with words that require higher order thinking skills • To relieve test anxiety • To achieve better on tests

  3. ANALYZE • Break apart • Study pieces

  4. Compare • Alike • All of the ways they are alike

  5. Contrast • Different • All the ways they are different

  6. Describe • Tell about • Tell ALL about

  7. Evaluate • Judge • Tell the importance of in your own words

  8. Explain • Tell how • Tell about it in your own words

  9. Formulate • Put together • Create

  10. Infer • Read between the lines • Make an educated guess

  11. Predict • What will happen next? • Tell what you think might happen

  12. Summarize • Sum it up • Give me the short version

  13. Support • Give the facts • Back up with details

  14. Trace • List Steps • Outline

  15. Works Cited • Bell, Larry I. 12 Powerful Words. Manassas, Virginia: Multicultural America, 2005. • “FCAT Power Words.” Sarasota Middle School. 5 Sept 2008 <http://www.sarasotamiddleschool.com/html/fcat_power_words.html

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