The document summarizes the progression of early human civilizations from the Stone Age through the Copper, Bronze, and Iron Ages. It provides sources for students to learn about the defining characteristics of each age. The reading strategies guide students to activate their prior knowledge, identify key information while reading, and reflect on their understanding after reading. Students are asked to fill out a comparison chart on the Copper, Bronze, and Iron Ages covering time periods, features, tools, and drawings. They then answer questions to demonstrate their comprehension of the materials covered in the sources.

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Type of text: Expositive Format: Continuous
Sources:
 Traits of civilization - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2exRx5QMRU
 Prehistory and the metal Ages - https://youtu.be/dLPgqobwPGE?t=416
 Copper Age - https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/copper/353000
 Bronze Age - https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/bronze-age/
 Iron Age - https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/iron-age/
Topic: Between the stones and the metal Comprehension goal: Analyze how the first cultures produced,
transformed and distributed resources, goods and services according to the
physical features of their environment.
Reading level: Literal, inferential
Reading strategies:
Before the reading:
1. Reading goal: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic?
3. Select important information: (key words) What key words I can select?
During the reading:
1. Select important information: (Highlight) and (key words) What can I select that is part of the topic?
After the reading:
1. Ask and reflect: What did I understand? Did I achieve the reading goal?
Readind skills: Learning evidence:
 Recover explicit information in the content of
the text.
 Selects prompt information about what, who, when, where, why
and how of the text.
 Selects relevant information about the text.
Multidisciplinary evidences.
 Identify economic, politic and cultural factors that have generated the Ancient Civilizations of Asia and Africa.
BEFORE:
Our reading objective will be to read the following text to recognize the main features from the Ancient Civilizations of Asia and
Africa. Let´s activate previous knowledge: see the video TRAITS OF CIVILIZATION -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2exRx5QMRU and write (and draw) the nine (9) features of an Ancient Civilization. Based in the
exercise you can ask yourself: what do I know about the topic?
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2. DURING:
1. Let´s learn about the metals and respective activities that influenced this epoch. Check the video PREHISTORY AND THE
METAL AGES - https://youtu.be/dLPgqobwPGE?t=416 Select the important information: What can I suppress? What can
I keep? Based on the information provided in the video, fill the next comparison chart:
TOPIC COPPER AGE BRONZE AGE IRON AGE
YEARS
FEATURES
POSSIBLE TOOLS
DRAWNING
AFTER:
Once the comparison chart, let´s Ask and reflect: What did I understand? Did I achieve the reading goal? Participate
in the class answering in a short way to these questions; finally, let´s check these sources and answer the questions:
1. Where copper is
found?
2. What are the uses
for copper?
3. How where the
bronze-age warriors?
4. How where the
bronze-age beliefs?
5. How where the
bronze settlements?
6. How was bronze
made?
7. What where the hill
forts?
8. What were the iron-
age accessories?
9. How was the iron-
age village life?
10. How was iron
made?