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CHECKPOINT

18. It’s time to check your performance up to this point.

• Copy the following format in your notebook and fill it in with the information

related to the activities you have already finished, especially the purpose and what
Reading strategies Example: Activity: Choosing sources of information.
your experience was while carrying out the activity. Look at the example.

Purpose
of the
activity: To obtain the information needed for our infographic.

My We had some difficulty at first, because we chose how
experience wind turbines work, but our teacher helped us to find
session 7 19. Answer the following questions to think about the strategies you used
carrying
information about them on government websites
out this
with information about renewable sources of energy.
activity:

when reading.

• Which strategy/strategies helped you to understand the information and which
did not? Why?

20. Exchange the answers to the questions in the previous activity with a partner
and do the following.

• Read a paragraph from the information your partner registered.
• Explain the strategy you follow to understand what you’ve read.

• Show each other how you use such strategies. If needed,
Wow!
go back to the example in the previous activity. That sounds like
Example: In my a good idea, because I
case, I read all did it backwards and it didn’t
the information once. Then work for me. I’ll try your
I re-read the paragraphs with strategy out.
concepts I didn’t get and, since
I read all the I had already read everything,
I could understand them.
information, but I underlined I did what he did,
the words I did not understand. but instead of using a
Then, I used the dictionary to look dictionary, I asked questions
up their meaning and I read and I used the images to find out
the information again. the meaning of the concepts I
didn’t understand.

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