The document provides reading strategies and questions for understanding the influence of European exploration and colonization in America. It asks students to activate prior knowledge on conquest and colonies before reading. During reading, students should select important information, identify the text structure, and answer comprehension questions. After reading, students are asked to summarize a topic from the colonial America section in an infographic, including title, images, short texts using keywords, and sources. The goal is for students to understand the economic and geographic impacts of European territorial expansion and colonization in America.

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NAME: _________________________________GRADE: 7___ DATE: ________TEACHER: _____________________
Type of text: Explanatory Format: Continuous
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/conquest-international-law
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/colony/
https://kids.kiddle.co/European_colonization_of_the_Americas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er4CMhp6hqc
https://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/
Topic: The influence of Europe in the new world Comprehension goal: What economic and geographical impacts did the
territorial explorations and the colonization process have in America?
(Content and Purpose).
Reading level: Literal and inferential
Reading strategies:
Before:
1. Reading goal: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic?
During:
1. Select important information: What information should I select because it is important for the topic or it is the main idea?
2. Use of text structure: Which internal structure predominates in the text?
After:
1. Use a structural strategy: What is the most accurate text representation?
2. Keys to make an infographic: What elements should the infographic have?
Reading skills Learning Evidence
 Identify and deduce the local meaning of
words.
 Recover explicit information in the content of
the text.
 Selects relevant information about the text.
 Recognize sequences of actions, facts or events in the text.
Multidisciplinary evidences.
 Extracts relevant information about the process of Conquest in the American Continent and exposes a particular aspect of
the colonial lifestyle of the epoch.
BEFORE:
Reading objective: Read to account for what is understood by stablishing the relation between the American and European
continents through the process of Conquest and Colony. Before reading the text let's activate previous knowledge: What do you
know the concepts of Conquest and Colony?
DURING:
Select important information: During the reading, extract the information that allows you to answer the following questions.
Use of text structure: Which internal structure predominates in the text? Then, present it in front of your partners and answer
the conceptual questions made by the teacher, finally answer to: what is the most accurate text representation?
 Problem – solution
 Cause – effect
 Description
 Comparison
 Sequence
 Concept
 Argumentative

2. 2. Before reading and answer, check the questions:
a) In which viceroyalty is the current country of Colombia located?
b) Why Europeans were looking for new trade routes?
c) Why the aborigines or natives from America are called Indians?
d) Who were the conquerors who led the process of invasion and destruction of the Aztec and Inca empires?
e) What do you think is the reason why the aborigines or native from America could not defend themselves against the Spaniards
despite the fact that there were many more against them?
f) Why England and France mainly settled in the northern part of America?
g) Why African slave labor was needed on the American continent?
h) According to the video, which were the most important phases of the Conquest and colony Process in the American continent?
MANDATORY SOURCE: https://view.genial.ly/61203890e8aaae0d6af6559b/presentation-conquest-and-colony
AFTER:
Use a structural strategy. Once the reading is over, select one topic from the section COLONIAL AMERICA.
Keys to make an infographic (structure):
 Title
 Central image, secondary images
 Relationship between images and texts
 Short texts using keywords.
 Suggest a reading order
 Try to use the suggested tools
 Select the relevant information
 Include the source