Pre-Test • In a Venn

diagram, write
5 similarities
and 5
differences
Critical Critical each of Critical
Reading and
Reading Thinking Critical
Thinking (15
pts).
Critical Reading
as Looking for
Ways of Thinking
Reading and Writing Skills
2nd Semester | SY 2016-2017

Miss Hazel Angelyn E. Tesoro

Teacher III
Critical Reading vs. Critical Reading

Critical Reading Critical Thinking

• Critical reading is • Critical thinking is
a technique a technique
for discovering for evaluating 
 information and information and
ideas within a text. ideas, for deciding
what to accept and
believe.
Critical Reading vs. Critical Reading

Critical Reading Critical Thinking

• Critical reading • Critical thinking
refers to a careful, involves reflecting on
the validity of what
active, reflective, you have read in light
analytic reading. of our prior knowledge
and understanding of
the world. 
Sample Text
Parents are buying • In the context of the
expensive cars for sentence, “them”
refers to which word?
their kids to destroy
• Based on your
them. chosen meaning of
the statement, is the
meaning of the
statement true? Why
or why not?
Questions
• Which comes first? Critical reading or
critical thinking? Why?
• By these definitions, critical reading would
appear to come before critical thinking:
Only once we have fully understood a
text (critical reading) can we truly
evaluate its assertions (critical
thinking). 
Critical thinking allows us to monitor
our understanding as we read. 
• If we sense that assertions are
ridiculous or irresponsible (critical
thinking), we examine the text more
closely to test our understanding
(critical reading). 
 Conversely,  critical thinking
depends on critical reading. 
• You can think critically about a text (critical thinking),
after all, only if you have understood it (critical reading). 
• We may choose to accept or reject a presentation, but we
must know why. We have a responsibility to ourselves,
as well as to others, to isolate the real issues of
agreement or disagreement.
• Only then can we understand and respect other people’s
views.  To recognize and understand those views, we
must read critically.
Any questions,
so far? 
Why Care to Differentiate Critical
Reading from Critical Reading?

If critical thinking and critical

reading are so closely linked,
what for is the need that we
differentiate them?
Why Care to Differentiate Critical
Reading from Critical Reading?
• We must read each text on its own merits, not
imposing our prior knowledge or views on it.
• We must evaluate ideas as we read.
• We must not distort the meaning within a text.
• We must not allow ourselves to force a text to
say what we would otherwise like it to say—or
we will never learn anything new!
Any questions,
so far? 
Critical Reading
Exercises
Critical Reading Strategy #1:
Sentence Completions
Roger said the A. contemporary
report was B. scintillating
significant; Heather
contradicted him, C. objective
saying that all the D. irrevocable
information E. immaterial
presented was
_______ .
Critical Reading Strategy #1:
Sentence Completions
Roger said the A. contemporary
report was B. scintillating
significant; Heather
contradicted him, C. objective
saying that all the D. irrevocable
information E. immaterial
presented was
_______ .
Any questions,
so far? 
 Critical Reading Strategy #2:
Passage-Based Questions
After I left the room, I began to sift A. skeptic
my impressions. Only the day
before, an acquaintance had warned B. hypocrite
me to watch carefully for sleight-of-
hand tricks, especially as the man
C. hoaxer
had earlier been a stage conjuror. D. confidant
The “acquaintance” mentioned in E. mystic
line 2 can best be described as a
_____.
 Critical Reading Strategy #2:
Passage-Based Questions
After I left the room, I began to sift A. skeptic
my impressions. Only the day
before, an acquaintance had warned B. hypocrite
me to watch carefully for sleight-of-
hand tricks, especially as the man
C. hoaxer
had earlier been a stage conjuror. D. confidant
The “acquaintance” mentioned in E. mystic
line 2 can best be described as a
_____.
Got questions?

Quiz
Quiz
Write CR if the statement refers to
Critical Reading and CT if it refers
Critical Thinking.
 1
A careful, active, reflective, analytic
reading
 2
A technique for evaluating information
and ideas
 3
A technique on reflecting on the validity
of what you have read
 4
A technique for deciding what to accept
and believe
 5
A technique for discovering information
and ideas within a text