PARADISE FARMS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Student’s Name: Section:

Teacher: Maria Yvonne P. De Torres

SUBJECT: ENGLISH 9

MEL COMPETENCIES: • Judge the validity of the evidence listened to EN9LC-IVh-2.15

MODE OF LEARNING: MODULAR QUARTER: FOURTH

DATE: May 15-19, 2023 DAY:3 AND 4

OVERVIEW: This lesson will help you to clearly understand the reading text and
comprehend critically and logically towards the text you are reading.
You are expected to develop your reading comprehension and skills
in critical reading.

OBJECTIVES: ● Analyze critical issues from the material viewed or read

● React to lay value judgment on critical issues that demand
sound analysis and call for prompt actions
● Engage with developing skills in critical reading

MATERIALS: ,,Lecture,, Activity Sheet,

MODULAR

LECTURE
Critical reading means that a reader applies certain processes, models, questions, and theories
that result in enhanced clarity and comprehension. Critical reading involves presenting a reasoned
argument that evaluates and analyses what you have read.

Critical Reading Process

1. Before you read phase- The reader establishes in his or her mind a purpose and a plan for
reading.
2. During reading phase- The reader begins to read the written text. Then, the reader will think
about the purpose for reading and about his or her prior knowledge. This may occur during short
pauses taken while reading.
3. After-reading phase of the process occurs when the reader finishes reading the written text. The
reader takes time to think about what he or she knew before the reading and what he or she learned
or connected with during the reading, and then he or she links this information together to build new
knowledge.

Critical reading suggested steps:

1. Prepare to become part of the writer's audience.

After all, authors design texts for specific audiences, and becoming a member of the target
audience makes it easier to get at the author's purpose. Learn about the author, the history of the
author and the text, the author's anticipated audience; read introductions and notes.
2. Prepare to read with an open mind.
Critical readers seek knowledge; they do not "rewrite" a work to suit their own personalities.
Your task as an enlightened critical reader is to read what is on the page, giving the writer a fair
chance to develop ideas and allowing yourself to reflect thoughtfully, objectively, on the text.
3. Consider the title.
This may seem obvious, but the title may provide clues to the writer's attitude, goals, personal
viewpoint, or approach.
4. Read slowly.
Again, this appears obvious, but it is a factor in a "close reading." By slowing down, you will
make more connections within the text.
5. Use the dictionary and other appropriate reference works.
If there is a word in the text that is not clear or difficult to define in context: look it up. Every
word is important, and if part of the text is thick with technical terms, it is doubly important to know
how the author is using them.
6. Make notes.
Jot down marginal notes, underline and highlight, write down ideas in a notebook, do
whatever works for your own personal taste. Note for yourself the main ideas, the thesis, the author's
main points to support the theory. Writing while reading aids your memory in many ways, especially
by making a link that is unclear in the text concrete in your own writing.
7. Keep a reading journal
In addition to note-taking, it is often helpful to regularly record your responses and thoughts
in a more permanent place that is yours to consult. By developing a habit of reading and writing in
conjunction, both skills will improve.

REFERENCES

• https://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/critical-reading-what-critical-reading-and-why-do-i-
need-do-it
• https://www.nlsd.k12.oh.us/userfiles/294/Classes/1572/The%20Reading%20Process.pdf
 ACTIVITY 1 (DAY 3)

Directions: Read each item carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in the space
provided for.

1. Which phase in critical reading includes linking information from previous understanding to
build new knowledge?

a. Before you read

b. After reading
c. Critical reading
d. During reading

2. The following are skills required for a reader to make meaning from the text read, EXCEPT:
a. Word recognition
b. Interest
c. Comprehension
d. Fluency

3. This may provide clues to the writer's attitude, goals, personal viewpoint, or approach.
a. Dictionary
b. Title
c. Notes
d. Journal

4. Which of the following steps shows the factor for close reading?
a. Slow reading
b. makes note
c. keeps a reading journal
d. uses the dictionary

5. It presents reason for analysis of what you have read.

a. Before you read
b. After reading
c. Critical reading
d. During reading

ACTIVITY 2 (DAY 3)

Critical Reading
Directions: Read the poem then answer the questions that follow.

The road not taken

Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
 Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

1. What does the poem say?

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2. What does it describe?
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 ACTIVITY 3 (DAY 4)

Directions: Fill in the flow chart with the process in critical reading.