This section offers a variety of tasks and activities that your instructor can assign, you can do on your own, or you can do with your study group. The more you apply and use your new knowledge, the better you will store it for later retrieval. It is also important to find ways in which you can have fun with your new skills and knowledge.

1.			Create a list of the reading and research strategies that you would feel comfortable using to understand a text. What could you do if you do not understand or if you feel overwhelmed?
2.			Create an exploratory guide. What questions should be asked in order to determine what happened to whom, where, when, and how? List the kind of textual cues, linguistic cues, and semantic cues that would give you the information you seek.
3.			Design a structure to explore the thematic construct of a story. Narratives have three general components: the introduction (la exposición, el desarrollo), the complication (el suspenso, el punto decisivo, el clímax) and the resolution (el desenlace). How can the reader identify these different components? What are the lexical cues for each? How do you know when and if the resolution has been reached?
4.			Write imitative narratives in which the basic story line remains the same but the setting, time, and characters change.
5.			Re-create the plot within the framework of a current world or national event.
6.			Write a few paragraphs that imitate the stylistic writing technique of the author.
7.			Write an alternate ending to the story.
8.			Select one character and expand upon the character's role in the narrative, as well as his/her relationship with the other characters, using one textual reference as the springboard. (For example, describe the past relationship between two characters that explains their current attitude toward each other.)
9.			Write yourself into the narrative as an additional character. What is your role in the story and your relationship with the other characters?
10.			Write about the story as if you were a newspaper reporter.
11.			Write about the story from the "fly-on-the-wall" perspective in which you know all and see all.