Do you want to help your students vary their word choice when writing an analysis? Do you get tired of "the author says..." being the only way that students introduce an idea? If so, then this collection of writing verbs is for you! I have made these into a word wall in my classroom, and, when the students are writing about what an author is doing in a text, I ask them to choose a new word from the word wall! Having them present in the classroom has helped improve their word choice variation, an