Maryhill College

Basic Education Department

Lucena City

SELF-PACED LEARNING MODULE

Learning Area READING AND WRITING SKILLS

Quarter 3RD
Week ONE
Lesson Title Introducing the Reading Process and
Reading Strategies
Learning Resources/Materials
A. Book
Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students shall have:
1. analyzed effective reading strategies in comprehending a text;
2. applied the different effective reading strategies in a text; and
3. appreciated reading as a complex interaction and indispensable skill
Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC)
 Evaluate a written text based on its properties (organization, coherence and
cohesion, language use and mechanics)

A. Getting Started

Good day! Welcome to our 2nd semester! For this sem, we will
enhance your skill in reading and writing. Are you ready?
Let’s start.

Does the act of reading not amaze you? The fact that you are able to
decipher the written symbols on this page, get meaning from, and put meaning into
them, is no small wonder. But reading is not just a matter of knowing what is written in
the book. To read intelligently means you are able to read actively and critically. You
do not only understand what the text says and means but are also able to evaluate
context.

In your book on page 3, write down on the blanks the actions that can be associated
with reading.

1. Decoding a text
2. Browsing a text
3. Scanning a text
4. Absorbing Knowledge
5. Gathering information
6. Entertaining our minds
Let us try to better appreciate what it means to read by studying a poem.

In your book on page 3, answer the mind map where you will write the words you
associate with the word “Jabberwocky.”

If you are done watching, answer the vocabulary check and discussion question in
your book.
Unfamiliar word Part of speech Similar sounding Possible meaning
from the poem word in English
1. Slithy Adjective Slimy. Sly, Description for a
Slithery slimy animal.
2. Mimsy Noun Flimsy Underwhelming,
and intellectual.
3. Uffish Adjective Fish Grumpy, and ill
tempered
4. Galumphin Adjective Embarrassing Ponderous or
g noisy manner,
inelegant.
5. Frumious Adjective Furious Very Angry.

Discussion questions:
1. I didn’t understand the poem that well. Because there are a lot of
unfamiliar words in it that follows another unfamiliar word.
2. A father tells his son to be aware of something called a jabberwocky
which lurks in the woods and has a horrible and disgusting claws and
teeth. The son then takes his sword and goes out hunting for these
creatures, finally he found it and killed it. It’s a nonsense poem with a boy
ignoring a warning.
3. I make sense of the poem by reading it carefully and a lot, searched for te
meaning of the unfamiliar words. Yes, it’s a nonsense to me but it is also
sensical by showing the importance of word choice, context clues and
prefixes.
4. The one talking to the boy is his father.
5. Jabberwock in the poem is a creature that has horrible set of claws and
teeth.
6. The weapon that is used to kill the jabberwock is a vorpal sword.
7. Before reading the poem, it was interesting to me the use of the title
jabberwocky, because I hear it everywhere, to me I think I heard it is a
dace etc., there is a lot of derivations that is going around with the word
jabberwocky. After reading it, it’s quite full of nonsense and confusing
because of the word choice so I have to research some of the words and
slowed me down and took the fun away in reading it.

B. Exploring the Lesson

 For our discussion, read pages 5-12 in your book.

C. Assessing Learning

For your activity, answer exercises A and B in your book pages 12-13.

A.
1. Synonyms
2. Antonyms
3. Examples
4. Explanations and definitions
5. Situations
6. Examples
7. Explanations and definitions

B.
1. Stroll, trudge, loiter.
Whenever I get bored my mind just strolls around. I rolled my eyes and trudge out of
the room after that. The aftermath of that is me Loitering around the hall.

2. Turmoil, anarchy, hubbub.

I was in a Turmoil, and was going crazy. Bringing anarchy to the people around me. A
hubbub of mouth blowing at each other occurred.

3. Tour, pilgrimage, vacation.

I’m touring myself in my house when somebody suddenly shouted. I have to go and
join a pilgrimage, to me its exhaustion visiting churches. That’s an awful vacation if
you are going to do that and I just started to have fun.

4. Enemy. Antagonist, opponent.

My mom is my enemy, she always opposes and contradict me. Surprise she was the
antagonist in the YA Fiction that came to life. Now she’s acting like my opponent from
my competition, all competitive and determine, determined to bring me down, I guess.

5. Dress, attire, vestment.

The bride walks down the aisle with her red sparkly dress. I was shocked because
that’s not a usual attire of a bride it should be white. Unlike priest where they can
wear white, purple, red, vestment. Did I attend the right wedding, this can’t be like a
Christmas party.

What have you learned today? Answer the question below.

Among the different reading strategies, which one do you think is the most effective
one and why?
All of it is important and effective, but answering this from my experience it would be
visualizing and questioning, with this two I would be able to get to know what the text
is telling me, I would be able to dive into its meaning deeper making it more easier to
understand and absorb.

D. Enhancing Skills
For this part. You have to answer the Application Activity in your book page 13.
The article is saved in your OTG flash drive. Take a picture of your activity and
save it in your OTG.
Unfamiliar Type of Your own Definition from The
words context clue definition the dictionary connotation of
used from context the word.
clues

1. Impediment Explanations Hindrance, obstruction; Insufficient,

Delay hindrance; causing delay
obstacle.
2. Smirch Explanations Ruin make Tarnish,
something (something) destroy
dirty; soil.
3. Nominatrix Definitions Person who The sucker wh The sucker wh
controls the o is always the o is always the
selection of guy or girl who guy or girl who
candidates for gets voluntold  gets voluntold
party to participate to participate
in the worst in the worst
projects or projects or
activities. activities.
Usually the Usually the
"new guy". "new guy".
4. Myocardial Situations An illness or a heart attack, Heart attack
Infarction disease occurs when
blood flow
decreases or
stops to a part
of the heart,
causing
damage to the
heart muscle.
The most
common
symptom is
chest pain or
discomfort
which may
travel into the
shoulder, arm,
 back, neck or
jaw.
5. Hemlock Definitions Locking of a highly Poison, death
hem poisonous in a tree.
European plant
of the parsley
family, with a
purple-spotted
stem, fernlike
leaves, small
white flowers,
and an
unpleasant
smell.
6. Runcible Situations utensils A utensil that Combination
is a
combination of
a fork and
spoon.
7. Definitions Possessing Possessing ability to turn
Aquadextrous the ability to the ability to the bathtub
turn the turn the faucet on and
bathtub bathtub faucet off with your
faucet on and on and off with toes
off with your your toes
toes.

1. Some are very accurate, and I’ve only missed some definition or they don’t match
at all.
2. I saw that most are definitions, explanations and situations. Because it talks about
words that are invented and are now in use. It also talks about the origin of it as well
as putting it into situations to be able to understand it completely.
3. I find it useful in trying to understand the words that are unfamiliar from the get go
or the tart before looking to its real meaning, at least it gives us something to hold on
to in the beginning so that we have kind of an idea about it. Most challenging is some
of the context clues aren’t that clear and distinct so it’s kind of hard to understand
from the start.
4. Well connotation is not far from the real definition it’s just an interpretation of the
word, it helps me understand it in a perspective making my knowledge about the word
deeper. Like for an example Happy, its dictionary meaning is feeling or showing
pleasure or contentment. While its positive connotative word is elating or negative is
manic, it gives us different options to the word.
E. Reflection
Reflect and complete: The activity that helped the most is: Is the assessing
learning to where I was able to meddle with the lesson, or marinate myself into the
lesson because it took me time to understand but in the end I was able to answer
it, just because of the given situation that I had with it.