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TECHNIQUES IN SELECTING
AND ORGANIZING
INFORMATION
Course Material No. 2
o Sentence Outline
RESOURCES NEEDED
PERFORMANCE STANDARD For this lesson, you would need the following
resources:
The learner critiques a chosen
• Selecting and Organizing Information PPT
sample of each pattern of
development focusing on
• Course Material, Microsoft Teams
information selection,
organization, and development.
CONTENT STANDARD
Dear Reader,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome to yet another year of wrestling with texts and
trying to make sense of them. In as much as there are a lot of
ambiguities in texts (as there are in the world which reflects
them, or the world which they make), certain facts are still
intact, as my teacher would say. And one of those facts is 5 Brainstorming List
that, no matter how hard it may seem or how basic that your
eyes just roll at the obviousness of it all, your reading and
writing skills are of paramount importance. Especially now.
7 Anong Ambag Mo?
In other words, this course will help you deal with texts better:
to interpret better and ultimately, to create.
the fact that wherever we go, whatever we do, we can never get
away from a text. To be able to read and discern texts which you
every day.
the palm of our hands (or rather, at the pixels of our TV, phone,
their toys?
craft.
we need to use some techniques that will help hold all our
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Brainstorming
List
Originally used by the American businessman
may have told you in the past, you can also brainstorm on
BRAINSTORMING LIST
The traffic situation at EDSA (Epifanio Delos
PROBLEM Santos Ave.) is a politician’s nightmare.
LEARNING ACTIVITY
1 ANONG AMBAG MO?
BRAINSTORMING LIST
Other sports such as football, amateur boxing,
and volleyball, are underfunded and
PROBLEM
underappreciated in a basketball-dominated
country such as the Philippines.
1. The sports-governing bodies in the country
must develop a stable grassroots program for
those who would like to delve into, improve on,
and succeed in other sports, so that the nation
may no longer hold on to the longstanding bias we
SUGGESTIONS have had with basketball, and be more open to the
honor we may achieve in excelling in other sports.
2.
3.
4.
Exhausting, huh? That means you have successfully created not only
a storm, but a super typhoon inside your head with the thoughts you
just laid out in the list above. Now, let’s create your “incident report”
by answering the following questions:
1. Which among the suggestions you presented do you think is
the most plausible to be executed/made into reality?
2. What were your considerations in giving these suggestions?
Did it come from:
a. Personal experiences?
Graphic
Organizers
When you were in your pre-school days, your teacher loved
that when children are fed with information that are arranged in a
faster than when just giving them plain text, or even when listening
wanted to achieve with you and your classmates by filling the walls
like your teachers and other professionals and laborers, GOs are
comprehend.
it. From the simplest tasks of sorting a pool of data into similar
specific information.
usually patronize, and you observe that the server handed you a
…so, if you’re in the mood for just a cold snack, you can simply
(placed on the “table”) and look for that cold snack you’ve been
craving for.
that you just filled in the previous activity took the form of a
KEY POINT
table. See what I mean with “versatile”?
A graphic organizer is a
Although tables are well and good for a beginner, they are teaching and learning
tool that is used to
organize information
not the only GO out there. We don’t want a one-hit wonder, do
and ideas in a way that
is easy to comprehend
we? The following are other types of GOs.
and internalize.
facts.
of the sets of data given to us, the proper term to use is contrast.
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effect.
of results repeatedly.
structure knowledge.
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• Plot diagram – used to map events in the story and GOAL CHECK
analyze major parts of the plot Check this video from Visme
(2019) for fifteen (15) more
commonly-used GOs, some of
which we’re going to use in
future CMs, and even in other
courses throughout your
Senior High School career,
such as in Practical Research
courses. Make sure to pay
attention to them!
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LEARNING ACTIVITY
2 SORT EM OUT
ENTREPRENEUR MANAGEMENT
LESSON SUMMARY
KEY TERMS
Venn diagram
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REFERENCES
• Carroll, A. (2019, November 5). "No Russian.": A Decade On Does modern Warfare 2
https://www.headstuff.org/entertainment/gaming/no-russian-modern-warfare-2/
• Constantino, C. & Menoy, J.(2016). Reading and Writing Skills. Mandaluyong City:
Books, ATBP.
• Engracia, J., Dayao, H., Vizconde, C. (2017). Reading and Writing in the Academe and
http://www.laflemm.com/reso/OutliningFill-InREVISED.pdf
• MacMillan, F. (2018, November 8). VAK learning styles: what are they and what do they
learning-styleswhat-are-they-and-what-do-they-mean/#!
• Purdue University. (n.d.). Types of Outlines and Samples. Retrieved from Purdue Online
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_process/developing_an_outline/
types_of_outlines.html
• Visme. (2019, December 19). 15 Creative Graphic Organizer Types to Visualize Your
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSDVRHQYZfA&feature=youtu.be
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between-an-architect-and-an-engineer
• Wyson, J. (2018). English for Academic and Professional Purposes. Quezon City: Phoenix
Publishing House.