STUDENTS’ WORKSHEET

Name : Mochammad Rigan Haryono

Class : X Cambridge

READING 1 INDETIFYING MAIN POINTS

Increasingly, students use the Internet to obtain information about both
general and academic topics. However, research shows that students
often do not evaluate online content before using it as source material.
To address this, it is important to have strategies to work out which
material can be trusted. This approach is known as 'critical literacy'.
A good starting point for reading digital media more critically is to ask
how credible (truthful) and relevant (useful) articles are. By comparing
websites that are about the same topic, or articles on the same story,
readers can start to develop an understanding of how this affects the
reader.
As you analyse texts, ask the following questions:
Who wrote the text? Often websites give details of an author's
knowledge or experience in an 'About' page. Online news articles often
have links to short biographies of the journalists. These tell you what
they have written about, and what they are specialists in. Use this to
decide how much the writer actually knows about the topic.
When was the text written? Academic research is changing all the time.
It is important that any information you use is up to date and has been
revised if major changes have occurred in the area of study. Websites
and books that don't change often become irrelevant.
Why was the text written? As a critical reader, you should know the
reason the material was published. Study the language that is used. Is
it trying to persuade you or inform you? As you do this, look at the details
that support any arguments. Decide if they are reliable, too.

Answer the following questions by completing the sentences.

1. According to studies, students….

2. According to the writer critical readers need to….
 3. The writer suggests that students should……
4. According to the writer “about” pages can be useful because……
5. The writer says you need to use current websites because…
6. As you read an article, you should decide…

READING 2 RESPONDING TO A TEXT CRITICALLY

(1) Yes, this is absolutely right. But I would say that it's not only students who
need to think in this way. There's a lot more media around in the digital age.
Perhaps we should all think about these lessons.

(2) There are some interesting points in your blog post, but I think you are wrong
about online material in general. Students can trust websites because they are
checked all the time. If a website doesn't tell the truth, or is out of date, it's
usually removed.

(3) I think that you make some good points. As a student, it's often difficult to
know which sources to include in written work. More and more of the material
that we use in essays isn't printed in books. In fact, a lot is only available online.
This makes critical literacy so much more important now than ever before.

(4) I'm really interested in what you have to say about critical literacy. It's
certainly a big issue at my college. But where did your sources come from?
There are so many old academic books that are as important now as when they
were written. Who says that old books aren't accurate?

(5) Yes, it's true that you need to know who is writing an article or even a
textbook, and why. But isn't this just part of the academic experience? I always
thought that if you want to be successful at university, you have to know how to
think critically on your own. It's the whole point of studying at this level.

Match the statement below with the appropriate paragraph above.

A. Thinks that students who don’t read critically shouldn’t get extra
help
B. Agrees with the author of the blog spot
C. Disagrees with the author of the blog spot
D. Wants to know where the author got their information
E. thinks that critical literacy is important to everybody.
A. READING 1
1. Use the internet to obtain information
2. Know the reason the material was published
3. Evaluate online content before using it as source material
4. Online news articles often have links to short biographies of the
journalists. These tell you what they have written about, and
what they are specialists in. Use this to decide how much the
writer actually knows about the topic.
5. It is important that any information you use is up to date and has
been revised if major changes have occurred in the area of
study.
6. If they are reliable

B. READING 2
A. (5)
B. (1)
C. (2)
D. (4)
E. (3)