Sunday, November 4, 2012

Instruction Words

   Below is a list of words that tell students what to do.  I call them direction words, because they give directions as to what to do.  They are in no particular order. All students should be able to use  these words in a sentence and have a decent working definition of these words.    Every assessment has directions and words that give directions and I pulled these words from various tests and assessments.  Students can only benefit from knowing these words well.  If you can think of any direction words I missed, please e-mail me at: miketaye@gmail.com.

I saw something similar on a vocabulary assessment on a Brigance(the name of the company) assessment.


Direction Words
 
add                 draw              cut                       start  
                                  
read                show              make                   place  
                            
look                put                 at                        count
                    
think               use                 mark                    start
                  
answer            reread             write                   choose           

change            alter                copy                    begin              

describe          explain           show how             fold             
    
fill in              finish                  join                     listen                

subtract          cross out          arrange                color            

name              suppose           round off              combine       

contrast          complete           connect              multiply       

form               divide               solve                   select          

review             replace             list                      match          

rearrange         circle                tell                     number

decide             remember          pretend             imagine

find                 compare            study                 rewrite

notice              skim                  organize            check

evaluate          simplify            increase by          find

locate              identify            label                   graph

estimate          compute           capitalize             study

underline         attach               observe               unscramble

observe           investigate   

Click here to get a  printable google docs  version of the above list

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