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Activity 17
• This practice has two moments
for assessment before it ends.
It is important to focus on
assessment as a formative tool
(rather than as a tool to
check results).
• Formative assessment is an
action that should be carried
out many times throughout the
practice. That will allow your
students to detect what they
have learned and into which
actions they need to put forth
more effort. For this reason,
although we only provide
two activities for formative
assessment (due to space
constraints), you may carry
out as many as you
deem appropriate.

• Monitor that your students
are being honest with their
classmates and with themselves.
• Check the students’ answers
and, if necessary, offer options
to improve them. For example:
recognize what the problem
is (unable to elaborate on and
interpret important information,
cannot include detailed
information selected because of
its relevance to the topic, etc.); offer solutions (think of other ways of presenting information, include their
points of view on the subject, identify causes and effects, etc.); implement them.
Activity 18
• Ask your students to look for complementary information to broaden and clarify the data they already
have. One strategy to do so is to organize a group reading to identify and list the verbs that expand their
information. Write a list on the blackboard so that students can participate.
• In our example, we show that it is possible to do this activity with just one text. However, it is most useful to
have three or more texts. That entails deciding on the source of information that results in the best text for
the report.

• Use this activity wisely to practice and show strategies for improving your students’ reading skills, such as
connecting what they already know about the topic and what the text says, visualizing, etc.

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