The Critical Academic/ Tier 2 Vocabulary Words Your Students Must Know for the Common Core State Standards!

Researchers estimate 85% of achievement test scores are based on the vocabulary of the standards. Students from poverty, ELL students, and other at-risk students are particularly in need of learning these words in ways that meet their specific learning needs.
Below are the high frequency Verbs and Nouns of the CCSS and words present in the exemplars provided in Appendix B.

Analyze
Articulate
Cite
Compare
Comprehend
Contrast
Delineate
Demonstrate
Describe
Determine
Develop
Distinguish
Draw
Evaluate
Explain
Identify
Infer
Integrate
Interpret
Locate
Organize
Paraphrase
Refer
Retell
Suggest
Support
Summarize
Synthesize
Trace

Alliteration
Analogy
Argument
Central Idea
Conclusions
Connections
Connotative Language
Details
Evidence
Figurative Language
Illustrations
Interaction
Metaphor
Mood
Point of view
Rhetoric
Simile
Stanza
Structures
Theme
Tone