Lesson 8

Prepared by:
Mrs. Chrisneliane M.
Baril
Review:
Answer these questions:
Questions:
Q1. What are some types of information
texts you know?
Q2. What is the purpose of information
texts?
Q3. What are some features of
information texts?
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• Write your answers on
the Student Worksheet.

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Are you familiar with the
following pictures?

What do we call them?

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In this lesson,
• Look at a different kind of information
text
• focus on how information can be
communicated visually
• learn some strategies for making sense
of information in a graph.
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What are graphs?

Graphs and charts organize information in different ways

from written information texts. That is why we call them
non-linear texts. They have their own structures and
special features for representing data and other kinds of
information.
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Here are some words and symbols you will
need to know. Let us read them together.

bar graph (a bar graph or chart

displays information (data) by
using rectangular bars of
different heights.)

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Here are some words and symbols you will
need to know. Let us read them together.
• key
• axis
• precipitation
• temperature
• average
• degrees Celsius
• millimeters
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• key (an explanatory list of symbols used in a
map, graph or table)
• axis (the line along the bottom or side of a graph
that is used to measure data)
• precipitation (rain, hail, sleet or snow that falls
from clouds to the ground)
• temperature (the degree of heat or cold of an
object or an environment)
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• average (the result that you get when you add
two or more numbers together and divide the
total by the number of numbers you added
together)
• • oC (degrees Celsius – abbreviation) mm
(millimeters – abbreviation)

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The horizontal axis shows the months of the year. On the left,
the vertical axis shows the
temperature in degrees Celsius. On the right, the vertical axis
shows the rainfall measured in
millimeters. The key tells us that the bars on the graph means
rainfall and the line with dots shows
the temperature.

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 Here are some tips on getting information from a graph.
• Read the title which gives the gist of what the graph is about.
• Analyze the data by examining the information and the
labels thoroughly.
• Examine the pictures, symbols, shapes or any image that tell
information.
• Study the relationship of the information and images deeply.
• Summarize the text’s main message.

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Answer these questions on the worksheet:

Q1. What does this graph show? (Write your answer in

a full sentence.)

Q2. According to the graph, which are the three coolest

months of the year in the Philippines?

Q3. How much rain falls in the wettest month of the

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Use the information from the graph to answer
the questions. Write your answers on the worksheet in full sentences.
Questions:
Q4. What does the graph tell you about the two warmest months in the
year?
Q5. What does the graph tell you about the average rainfall and
temperature in the Philippines from January to April?
Q6. A friend who lives in another country wants to visit the Philippines in
the early part of the year. They ask you what the weather is like. What
would you tell them? (Write one sentence
to summarize the information from the graph in your answer.)

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Lesson Conclusion
Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning about how to locate
and interpret information presented
visually in a graph. How has the lesson helped you to make
sense of graphs?

Q2.Which questions were easy to answer? Why?

Q3.What strategies did you use to answer the harder questions?

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Thank You
Presented by Mrs. Baril

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