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RWS11 Q3 Module 5
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READING AND
WRITING SKILLS
Quarter 3 – Module 5: Critical
Reading as Reasoning
(Second Semester)
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READING AND
WRITING SKILLS
Quarter 3 – Module 5: Critical
Reading as Reasoning
(Second Semester)
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Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this
also aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking
into consideration their needs and circumstances.
In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in
the body of the module:
What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in the
module.
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1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part
of the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other
activities included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
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Learning Competency
• Explain critical reading as reasoning (EN11/12RWS-IVac-8)
Objectives
What I Know
Before heading on to our lesson, let us first check what you already know.
Direction: Read the statements carefully, and determine if they are TRUE or
FALSE, then write your answers on the blanks provided before each number.
Direction: Can you think of the similarities and difference between critical
reading and reasoning? Try to fill this Venn Diagram with your ideas.
Critical reading does not simply ask what the text says but more of how
the topic is presented and why. Critical readers dwell on the distinctive
qualities of the text. Readers normally read texts to obtain facts and
knowledge. A critical reader, on the other hand, mulls over the unique
perspective of the author on a particular text and how the facts the author
presented arrived at his/her conclusion.
What Is It
Facts are statements that can be checked or proved. We can check facts
by conducting some sort of experiment, observation or by verifying (checking)
the fact with a source document.
Facts often contain numbers, dates or ages and facts might include
specific information about a person, place or thing.
Clue words for opinion statements are: think, believe, seem, always,
never, most, least, worse, greatest.
The author’s tone, on the other hand, may be evident in his/her choice
of words either expressing its connotation or denotation.
• Style – What can you infer from the author’s choice of words? From
what perspective did the author write the text? Was he/she inclusive
with his/her choice of words? Did they use jargons or slanted
meanings? If there are, were they properly defined for the reader’s
convenience and understanding? What other writing techniques did the
author apply in writing the text? Analyze each sentence structure,
figurative language and rhetorical questions existing in the text.
• Drawing Conclusions – What does the author want to highlight?
Compare and contrast the text with other similar ones. Identify the
similarities and differences in their approach of the same topic.
Making Inferences
What’s More
Activity 1
Direction: Identify whether the following statements are statements of fact or
opinion. Write SOF for statement of fact and SOO for statement of opinion.
Activity 2
Direction: Read the following passage and analyze the author’s purpose, tone
and persuasive techniques used by completing the table that flows it. Use the
guide questions we have discussed in the previous page to help you in
analyzing the text.
Purpose/Context
Author
Audience
Research/Sources
Proof/Evidence
Organization
Style
Drawing Conclusions
Remember!
What I Can Do
Activity 3
Direction: Let’s try if you can infer where I am and what I am doing, and what
can you infer about the feelings of the people in the situations that I’ll be
giving you. The first one has been done for you.
Example:
I see bubbles rising. I hear my own breathing. There are fish swimming
above me. I feel the seaweed swaying.
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Answer: _____________________
3. What can you infer from this?
Rey always carries his guitar with him.
Answer: _____________________
4. What can you infer about Anna’s father?
After Anna broke the vase, her father turned and walked away without
saying anything.
Answer: _____________________
5. What can you infer about the relationship of the speaker and whom she
is speaking to?
If you won’t go, I won’t either.
Answer: _____________________
Assessment
After our lesson, let us now check what you have learned.
Direction: Read the statements carefully, and determine if they are TRUE or
FALSE, then write your answers on the blanks provided before each number.
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Answers Key
True 5.
True 4.
False 3.
True 2.
False 1.
Know/Assessment
What I
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References