Reading strategies

Activity B - Reading strategies = Estrategias de lectura

Look at the picture of Reading Strategies and then read the text on Compost for the Garden. Use the 6 reading strategies for reading comprehension.

Compost for the Garden

This is the Special English Agriculture Report.

Compost is a dark, rich material added to soil to improve it. Compost is produced when bacteria and fungi break down organic matter, aided by insects, earthworms and other organisms. This natural recycling returns nutrients to the soil. More and more people are making their own compost at home. Composting can reduce the amount of garden and cooking waste we produce at home. 

Monica David is from the University of Illinois Extension. She explains that you can make a compost pile or dig a pit or use a waste container with holes cut in the side. There are different methods of composting. Some take more work. Others are easy work but take a slow process. You can learn about composting at garden centers, in books and on the Internet.

Add lime, wood ashes or crushed eggshells to the compost pile. This will neutralize acids which may form and cause a bad smell. Mix grass with other wastes to loosen them up. Do not use unfinished compost. It will rob plants of nitrogen instead of acting as a fertilizer. Do not add meat, fish bones or fatty food wastes to the compost mixture. Protein materials do not quickly decompose and they will bring animals. And, finally, do not add diseased vegetable plants to the pile.

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