Understanding the TEKS Verbs

Directions: Mark each verb(s) contained within each student expectation statement at your grade level witha highlighter. Some student expectations will have several verbs listed. Mark each oneseparately. Then record the number of times each verb appears throughout the TEKS for thatgrade level in the table below.

After all the TEKS verbs have been recorded; complete the Skill Level Summary Table at theend of the activity.

Grade level:_____

Ask Analysis To develop ideas based on observations

Balance Application To compute the difference between

Calculate Application To determine by mathematical processes

Classifr Comprehension To assign to a category

Collect Application To gather information about observations or measurements

Conduct Analysis To act, or the process of carrying on

Communicate Synthesis To give or exchange information orally or in writing

Compare Evaluation To judge one thing against another

Connect Application To show a relationship between things

Construct Application To make or form by combining or arranging parts

Copy Knowledge To reproduce original work

Create Synthesis To produce or bring about by course of action

Critique Evaluation To analyze and evaluate

Define Knowledge To identify or determine qualities or meanings

Demonstrate Application To prove or show by evidence or reasoning

Describe Comprehension To give an account of in words

Design Synthesis To deliberately plan

Determine Evaluation To decide by choice of alternatives or possibilities

Analyze Analysis To break down or dissect into its parts

Differentiate

Manipulate

Analysis

Application To manage or utilize skillfully ()

Develop Synthesis To make available or usable

To distinguish one from the other; simple to complex

aDiscuss Comprehension To talk over something

Distinguish Analysis To recognize or set apart from

Document Knowledge To provide written evidence of

Draw Analysis To come to a judgment about somethingConclusions

Employ Comprehension To involve or to make use of

Examine Analysis To test by questioning

Explain Comprehension To give reason for something

Express Comprehension To convey or give a true expression of

Extrapolate Analysis To predict by projecting past experience or known data

Evaluate Evaluation To determine the value of

Gather Application To collect

Generate Application To bring into existence

ExampleComprehension To serve as a pattern

Group Analysis To sort on the basis of any characteristic in common

identify Knowledge To recognize what something is

Infer Analysis To develop ideas based on observations

Illustrate Analysis To make clear or explain by using examples

Implement Application To put into effect

To read tables, graphs, charts, or diagrams and explain theInterpret Evaluation

information to answer questions

Investigate Analysis To make a systematic inquiry

Justify Evaluation To prove or show to be right or reasonable

Make Application To make or form by combining or arranging parts

Measure Knowledge To compare objects to arbitrary units (standard or nonstandard)

Observe Application To use one or more of the senses to gather information

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Predict Application To state in advance

Provide Knowledge To prepare or get ready in advance

Read Knowledge To make a study of

Recognize Comprehension To acknowledge or take notice

Record Knowledge To provide written evidence of

Relate Application To show or establish a connection between

Replicate Knowledge To reproduce a likeness of

Represent Comprehension To serve as an example or instance of

Research Analysis To carefully study or examine

Review Comprehension To study or examine again

Sequence Application To arrange in a series

Simulate Synthesis To imitate the representation of something

Sort Analysis To group on the basis of any characteristic in common

Summarize Comprehension To give a short statement that gives main purpose

Survey Analysis To examine as to condition, situation, or value,

Test Analysis To critically examine, observe, or evaluate

Understand Knowledge To grasp the meaning of

Use Application To put into action or service

Verify Comprehension To confirm

Organize

Plan

Synthesis To arrange or assemble into an orderly structure

Synthesis To formulate a way to achieve or do

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