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1. SOCIAL STUDIES - III TERM
PLEA
NAME: __________________________________GRADE: 5 A B C D DATE: ___________ TOPIC: _________________________ TEACHER: _______________________________
Type of text: Expositive (map) Format: Discontinuous
Literature source: http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ks3_geography/maps_atlases/imagesetc/long_lat.swf
Topic: The planetEarth and the universe Comprehension goal: How does latitude and longitude influence geographical aspects of the territory?
Reading level: Literal and inferential
Reading strategies:
Before the reading:
1. Reading goal: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic? What kind of text will it be? What is the format of the text?
During the reading:
1. Select information
After the reading:
1. Apply concepts: what is the use of this topic for everyday life?
2. How is the position of a specific place or city in the world?
Reading abilities: Learning evidences:
 Recover explicit information in the content of the text.  Selects prompt information about what, who, when, where, why and how of the text.
 Selects relevant information about the text.
Multidisciplinary evidences.
Make readings of text (animation), with discontinuous format (map) and extractsrelevant information and explicit details about latitude and longitude.
BEFORE:
Our reading objective will be to see the following animation to recognize the concepts of the latitude and longitude. Let´s activate previous knowledge about the subject. Look at the
tittle, then answer what do I know about the topic? What kind of text is? Making predictions: What will be the theme of the reading?

2. Answer with your own words:
What is a paralel?
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What is a meridian?
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What is a hemisphere?
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How is a place based on geographical coordinates?
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AFTER
Apply concepts:
1. What is the use of this topic for everyday life?
2. How is the position of a specific place or city in the world?
DURING
Stop and ask: What does the text say until here? What is the text animation about? What information should I select because it is important for the topic or it is the main idea? (use
the map) Which information can I suppress because it is not important? What can I generalize because it is repetitive through the text?

3. We go now to travel, below there
are several geographic
coordinates,you look for them with
your favorite tool and writes that
famous city belong. You have to
write your information in the work
shop (the table and the map). This
work can be done individually or
in pairs.
Latitude Longitude
City ° ' ° '
1 ……… 19 26 N 99 7 W
2 55 45 N 37 36 E
3 28 35 N 77 12 E
4 8 58 N 79 32 W
5 48 48 N 2 20 E
6 22 57 S 43 12 W
7 41 54 N 12 27 E
8 33 28 S 70 45 W
9 34 0 S 151 0 E
10 35 40 N 139 45 E

4. Again, we are going to travel, but in
this time there are several cities
arund the world, you look for them
with your favorite tool and writes the
latitude and longitude. You have to
write your information in the
workshop (the table and the
map). This work can be done
individually or in pairs.
Latitude Longitude
City ° ' ° '
1 Beijing, China
2 Berlin, Germany
3 Bogotá, Colombia
4 Buenos Aires,
Argentina
5 Cairo, Egypt
6 Cape Town, South
Africa
7 Caracas,
Venezuela
8 Lima, Peru
9 London, England
10 Madrid, Spain