ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

SY 2020-2021

Date:

I. Topic: Lesson No. 1- Text as connected discourse

II. Objectives:
 Identify the strategies of effective readers
 Discuss the strategies of effective readers
 Effectively apply these reading strategies

III.References: Academic Reading and Writing

IV. Teaching Procedures/Strategies:

A. PREMILINATY ACTIVITIES
a. Greeting
b. Prayer
c. Checking of attendance
d. Classroom cleanliness and organization

B. LESSON PROPER

1. ACTIVITIES
( 4 pics 1word) Guess what's the word based on the
theme of the pictures and set of letters.

1. Review the pictures. Once you started the game you will be shown
a screen with four photographs.
2. Guess the theme. Below the pictures, you will see black spaces
indicating how many letters are in the black.
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2. ABSTRACTION

READING
- is a active process of understanding print and graphic texts.

Strategies to be Effective readers:

Before
 Use prior knowledge to think about the topic
 Make predictions about the probable meaning of the text
 Previews to the text by skimming and scanning to get sense of the
overall meaning
During
 Monitor understanding by questioning thinking about and
reflecting on the ideas and information in the text
After
 Reflect upon the ideas and information in the text
 Relate what they have read to their own experiences and knowledge
 Clarify their understanding in critical and creative ways.

TEXT- a communicative occurrence which meets the standards of

textuality.

STANDARDS OF TEXTUALITY

1. COHESION
- the grammatical and lexical relationship between different
elements of a text which hold it together.
- can be defined as the links that hold a text together and
give it meaning.

2. COHERENCE
- The ways a text makes sense to readers and writer through
relevance and accessibility of its configuration of concepts,
ideas, and theories.
- Allows the reader to make sense of the text

3. INTENTIONALITY
- Concerning the text produces attitude that the set of
occurences should constitute acohesive and coherent text
instrumental in fulfilling the producers intentions.

FUNCTIONS of WRITTEN LANGUAGE

 ACTION
Public sign, product labels, recipes, maps, tv-guides, bills,
memus, telephones directions

 SOCIAL CONTRACT
Letters, postcards, greeting cards
  INFORMATION
News papers, magazines, non-fiction, textbooks, reports,
guidelines

 INTERTAIMENT
Light magazines, fiction books, poetry, drama, game

Discourse

1. Discourse is language “above the sentence”

2. Discourse is “ in use”
3. Discourse is form of social practice in which language plays a
central role.

3.Analysis

1. What are the differences between text and discourse?

2. What are the differences between cohesion and coherence?
3. What is the purpose of transition words in a sentence or
paragraph?
4. What is the importance of this topic?

4.APPLICATION

Activity #1

Directions: Write B on the space provided if the task is done before

reading, D if done during reading, or A if done after reading.

____1. Checking the table of context.

____2. Checking the length of the article.
____3. Getting the main idea of the article.
____4. Getting the meaning of difficult word through context clues.
____5. Marking the text for possible contradictions.
____6. Predicting the possible ending of the article.
____7. Predicting the theme of the article.
____8. Preparing a fishbone map.
____9. Summarizing the text.
____10. Writing a reading log.

Activity #2.

Directions: Read the sentences below and write YES if the statement
describes a “text” NO if it does not apply to the nature of a text.

____1. Texts have to be well-woven to serve their purpose.

____2. Written text is a form of speech immersed in life.
____3. Text are not bound up with the notion of communicative situation
____4. Linguistic accounts of the sentence can be extended to discourse.
____5. Text are viewed in simple terms of traditional grammar.
____6. Text in general hang together and make sense.
____7. A text is an extended structures that gives little sentence message
to help us.
____8. Discourse can be joined together by appropriate conjunctions or
connectives.
____9. Hyper sentence can be formed out of a single sentence.
____10. Text is an extended structure of syntactic units.

4.ASSIGNMENT

Research about the topic.

A. Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information

 BRAINSTORMING LIST
 Brain writing
 Figuring storming
 Online brainstorming
 Rapid ideation
 Round robin
 Starbusting
 Stepladder Technique