NBCT ELA Strategies to teach Reading Exam
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inferring - ✔✔making a logical guess based on facts (from the text) and your own
knowledge (from your life)
clarify - ✔✔to make clear
predict - ✔✔to think what will come next; to make a good guess
visualize - ✔✔to see pictures in your mind based on what you read
summarize - ✔✔to tell the beginning, middle, and end of the reading (including the
main idea and important details) but with fewer words
connect - ✔✔to join together two ideas or experiences
prior knowledge - ✔✔information that you already know; something you learned or
read about in the past
experience - ✔✔memories from your past; things that you remember that you have
done already
COPS - ✔✔Strategy for editing
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, C= Capitalization (I, proper nouns, beginnings of each sentence)
O= Organization and overall appearance (letter block format)
P= Punctuation (be aware of run-ons and sentence fragments
S= Spelling
CAST - ✔✔Paragraph writing strategy
C= Claim (1 topic sentence)
A= Add-on to claim ( 2 sentences to explain your claim)
S= Support Claim (expand your claim with 3 details [2 sentences per each detail])
T= Tie back to claim (1 closing sentence to wrap up the paragraph Timeliness)
ARRR - ✔✔Strategy for revising
A= Add (What more details does the reader need to know? Are there transitional words
to move from one idea to another?)
R= Rearrange (is the information in the most effective order?)
R= Remove (What information is unnecessary or redundant?)
R= Replace (What words or details can be made clearer or stronger?)
MUSE - ✔✔Strategy for Prewriting
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inferring - ✔✔making a logical guess based on facts (from the text) and your own
knowledge (from your life)
clarify - ✔✔to make clear
predict - ✔✔to think what will come next; to make a good guess
visualize - ✔✔to see pictures in your mind based on what you read
summarize - ✔✔to tell the beginning, middle, and end of the reading (including the
main idea and important details) but with fewer words
connect - ✔✔to join together two ideas or experiences
prior knowledge - ✔✔information that you already know; something you learned or
read about in the past
experience - ✔✔memories from your past; things that you remember that you have
done already
COPS - ✔✔Strategy for editing
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, C= Capitalization (I, proper nouns, beginnings of each sentence)
O= Organization and overall appearance (letter block format)
P= Punctuation (be aware of run-ons and sentence fragments
S= Spelling
CAST - ✔✔Paragraph writing strategy
C= Claim (1 topic sentence)
A= Add-on to claim ( 2 sentences to explain your claim)
S= Support Claim (expand your claim with 3 details [2 sentences per each detail])
T= Tie back to claim (1 closing sentence to wrap up the paragraph Timeliness)
ARRR - ✔✔Strategy for revising
A= Add (What more details does the reader need to know? Are there transitional words
to move from one idea to another?)
R= Rearrange (is the information in the most effective order?)
R= Remove (What information is unnecessary or redundant?)
R= Replace (What words or details can be made clearer or stronger?)
MUSE - ✔✔Strategy for Prewriting
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