The document provides guidance on effective reading strategies. It recommends activating prior knowledge about the topic, making predictions, visualizing content to create mental images, focusing on main ideas and highlighting important details, asking questions while reading, using context clues to understand unfamiliar words, summarizing the key points and details, and reflecting on what was learned from the text. Assessment questions address visualizing information, focusing on main ideas, asking questions, using context clues, organizing key information, summarizing, and giving opinions. The document also provides tips for expanding vocabulary like looking for opportunities to read, using context to guess word meanings, highlighting expressions, organizing new words, and visualizing or saying words in different ways.

1. Centro Colombo Americano - Libardo González

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 Notice pictures, charts, etc.
• Activate previous knowledge:
• What do you know about the topic?
 Make predictions:
• What will probably happen?
• What will the text probably say ?

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 What do you see in the picture(s)?
 Are there different sections?
 What do you know about the topic?
 What do you think the text will probably say?

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• Visualize: Create mental images
• Use context for unknown words
• Focus on main ideas:
• Highlight important details
• Ask yourself questions as you read
(Who? Where? Why? How? Etc. )
 Make predictions:
• What could happen next?

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 What mental images did you see?
 What main ideas did you highlight?
 What questions did you ask yourself?

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7. • Visualize information : Create mental images
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Assessment – Please explain
• Focus on main ideas : Highlight important details
• Ask questions as I read (Why, How, When, Where?)
• Use context to understand new words

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• Summarize main ideas & details
• What is the writer trying to say?
• Make a concept map to organize key information
• Give your opinion about the reading
• Respond to comprehension questions
• Synthesize: What did you learn?

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 What are the main ideas & details?
 What is your opinion?
 What did you learn from the reading?

10. • Organize key information
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Assessment – Please explain
• Summarize main ideas & details
• Give my own opinion about the reading
• Say something I learned from the reading

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• Look for opportunities to read
• Read movie captions
• Use context to guess the meaning of new words
• Highlight key expressions
• Organize new language (notebook section)
• Group / associate new words / expressions
• Visualize to personalize (imagery)
• Say or write new words in different ways

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Assessment – Please explain
• I read out of class regularly
• I watch movies with captions on
• I organize new vocabulary
• I personalize new vocabulary
• I use a dictionary or Thesaurus

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• Can understand specific details of articles and
academic texts
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• Can identify specific information and particular
details of texts on familiar topics
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• Can only identify general idea on a familiar topic
with visual support

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• Eloquent, fluent and complex
• Variety of words and expressions
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• Adequate to talk about daily topics
• Use vocabulary fluently with some limitations
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• limited vocabulary
• Problems expressing basic ideas
• Sentences are limited to a few words
• Long pauses and/or repetitions
• Speaks Spanish in class

15. 1. Vocabulary is adequate (only minor limitations)
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Assessment – Please explain
2. React to information using different expressions
5. Previous and new vocabulary is organized
4. New vocabulary is personalized and activated