CRITICAL

READING
AND
THINKING
Reporter: Sophia Buiser
BEFORE WE
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THE TOPIC, to do is to figure them out and

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SHORT
ACTIVITY.
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PARTICIPATING!
LESSON FOR
THE DAY
 CRITICAL
READING AND
THINKING
Critical reading is a technique for discovering
information and ideas within a text.
Critical thinking is a technique for evaluating
information, making judgements about
information one reads or hear.
 Here are the following critical
reading-thinking skills:
Interpreting
-thinking about what a writer is really saying.
-result of how you understand different symbols, items, cues, imagery,
and other devices that the writer uses in the text.
-Webster's dictionary is the “action of explaining the meaning of
something; the way something is explained or understood.”
-useful in reading all kinds of texts.

Inferring
-process used by a reader to understand an idea that the
author does not state explicitly.
-it is done while you are reading.
-useful in reading expository, persuasive, and descriptive texts.
 Drawing Conclusion
-figuring out much more than what an author says directly.
-helps a reader find connections between ideas and events and
helps him or her to have a better understanding of what is
being read.
-important in reading expository and persuasive texts.

Analyzing
-To analyze means to break a text down into its parts to better
understand it.
-is the ability to carefully examine something, whether it is a
problem, a set of data, or a text.
 Distinguishing fact from opinion
FACT:
-an idea that is already proven or is obviously true.
OPINION:
-beliefs or judgments
-unverified idea, it may or may not prove to be true

-the ability to distinguish between fact and opinion helps students

develop their critical and analytical skills in both their reading and their
listening.
Evaluating
-forming an opinion or making a judgment about something
being read.
-important in reading expository, persuasive, and narrative
texts.
 Synthesizing
-connect ideas to form a coherent whole, serves as your new
understanding.
-combining or collecting ideas to come up with something new such as a
new way of presenting the information.

Predicting
-is an estimation made from observations.
-making intelligent guesses about what will happen next in a
text.
-enables you to anticipate what will happen and to prepare you
to understand the next events.
 Short Quiz
1.A kind of critical reading-thinking skill that is
useful in reading expository, persuasive, and
descriptive words.
2.-3. Define what is Fact and Opinion
4.Combining or collecting ideas to come up with
something, an example of this is the jigsaw
puzzle.
5.Thinking about what a writer is really saying in
a text.
6.Kind of critical reading-thinking skill where it
is an estimation made from observations.
7.It is the beliefs or judgment.
8-15. Enumerate the 8 critical reading-thinking
skills