Activity 4: Now it is your turn to practice!
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Read the next text:
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Based on the text, make one question asking for explicit and implicit information and post it here.
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Answer at least two of your friends' questions. Feel free to make any suggestions about their questions.
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Remember to review the materials and examples provided in activity 2.
Exercise Your Mind
This is your second step!
Learning goals
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By the end of this journey, you will be able to:
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Identify specific information, and make inferences about the content of a text.
Introduction
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In the first step of this project you learned to identify the main and supporting ideas of a text. It is very important! But, when you read you need to consider two types of information: explicit and implicit. Sometimes the author of a text expresses his idea in an indirect form. What is that? How can you identify and understand those types of information? Find it here!
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Take your life jacket and submerge into the reading water!
Activity 2: Giving you a hand
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Do you remember the two types of information: EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT?
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They are very important in reading comprehension. For that reason, we invite you to watch this short video.​
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If you want to know more information? Click HERE to read about it.
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Let’s practice a little!
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In this link, you will find a short text.
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Read the text
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Answer the comprehension questions HERE
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Great! Now you can differentiate EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT information, and you can answer comprehension questions with SPECIFIC ideas in the text or making INFERENCES.
Activity 3: Practice makes perfect
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Did you like the text? Now it is time for the reading comprehension QUIZ!
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It is your turn to have another chance to practice!
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This time, you will read the complete text about good health. REMEMBER! There is a main idea, and many secondary ideas. There is explicit and implicit information.
After you read the text, there is a short reading comprehension quiz with multiple-choice answers. You will test your explicit and inferential skills about reading!
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Click HERE and use the RESOURCES that you need to help you understand the text.
Activity 1 : Healthy mind
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Now that you identified some aspects to be healthy physically, think of more ideas that help us be mentally healthy. Follow these instructions.
1. Read the examples
2. Think of three tips to be mentally healthy
3. Click here to post your tips
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Exercise your mind, reading interesting information
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Be positive, do not focus on the problems
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Participate in a creative project
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Interesting tips? Great!
Check what you learnt:
Before starting this second step, let’s check what you learnt on the first step called “Be good to your body”.
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Please, click HERE to access a survey and check your progress.
Let's review
Click on the word document and complete the review exercise.