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Activity 29
Closure stage-socialization
• Remind your students to
keep the sub-products they
previously completed well
organized, so that writing
the draft will be a less time-
consuming activity.
• Historically, punctuation was
developed as a means to give
clues about how a text should
be read in order to avoid
ambiguities. In past times, texts
did not have punctuation, there
were no spaces between words
and there were no lowercase
letters. The purpose of this
activity, therefore, is to have
students reflect upon the use
of punctuation as a means of
reducing misunderstandings in
a written text.

• This activity complements
Activity 5, which is about
making adjustments to format
after planning a text. Format
drafts are just as important as
content drafts.
• Review what students are
writing and, if necessary, go
over the strategies used in the
activities of the social practice
with them.

Activity 30
• Although it is not necessary to write the details of the correction (which is different from actually making
the correction), it is a good exercise, since it helps students reflect upon certain features that
are commonly corrected.
• Even if your students use the example given in the book as a model, it is important to insist that editing
should include more details than those therein listed. Thus, it is important to add more details for review.
• Remind your students that rather than striving for absolute perfection and nitpicking every single detail
they find, it is more important to achieve a good product overall. Also, this will help them save pointless
discussions which would be bound to create unnecessary strife among the students.
Activity 31
• The final version may include changes of both images and format. These changes are not pointed
out in the Activity Book, since the focus is on the written text, but they provide added value to your
students’ work.

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