Goal Verb Bank — by Learning Ropes Strand

The verb sets the level. Every annual goal has a verb, and the verb decides the cognitive level the goal asks for. Chosen by habit, it drifts to the bottom of the taxonomy and stays there. This bank ties the verb to the strand: building verbs for while the strand is being acquired (Remember · Understand · Apply), reaching verbs for once it is becoming automatic (Analyze · Evaluate · Create), and the TEKS verb from the strand's own standard so the goal and the standard can be compared in one glance. Every verb here is observable; the parenthetical is the object a goal would count. Click a verb to drop it into the goal stem below.

Flags mark rows where a goal is usually aimed at the wrong target: a ceiling (the outcome where strands braid), a mechanism (never the eligibility), or a strand the SLP writes. Companion: Accommodations by Strand · Five Questions That Reveal Which Lens Wrote This Goal.

Goal builder — click any verb above and it drops into the verb slot (click another to replace it). Fill in the rest; the goal assembles below.

Condition Student Verb [click a verb above] Object Criterion Schedule Measure