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Reading 3 Practice Task

This document provides instructions and examples for students to practice identifying and evaluating claims. It asks students to identify statements as claims of fact, value, or policy and explain their reasoning. It also provides assessment questions to test students' understanding of what constitutes a good claim and how to determine the type of claim being made.

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Reading 3 Practice Task

This document provides instructions and examples for students to practice identifying and evaluating claims. It asks students to identify statements as claims of fact, value, or policy and explain their reasoning. It also provides assessment questions to test students' understanding of what constitutes a good claim and how to determine the type of claim being made.

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Let’s test your understanding.

Be sure to do
PRACTICE TASK 1 the following activities. I know you can do it!
Evaluating Claims

Based on the given characteristics above, evaluate the following claims. Place check ( ) on the blank beside the
number if you consider the example a good claim. If not, on the space provided, state what can be improved in the
given example. (2 points each)

_______1. Teachers face numerous problems today.

________________________________________________________________________________________

_______2. Educating the youth on responsible parenthood is the best way to prepare them for having families in the
future, since this effort involves the school, the home, and the church.

________________________________________________________________________________________

_______3. We must persevere with every ounce of our national vigor to eradicate poverty, ensuring that the
Philippines will have a bright tomorrow, and that truth and justice will reign.

________________________________________________________________________________________

_______4. Pilosopo Tasyo is my favorite character in NoIi Me Tangere because he is the most interesting.

________________________________________________________________________________________

_______5. Though they seem to foster connections, social networking websites like Facebook actually discourage
meaningful communication because they make us focus on superficial behavior.

________________________________________________________________________________________

PRACTICE TASK 2
Identifying Claims

Identify each statement below as a claim of fact, value, or policy. Briefly explain your choice. (2 points each)

______________1. National strength can only be built on character.


_________________________________________________________________________________

______________2. The Filipinos of the past became strong-willed, earnest, and adventurous by necessity: They had to
brave the seas, clear the forest, and erect towns and cities upon the wilderness in order to establish
communities.
_________________________________________________________________________________

______________3. To ensure the accomplishment of this task of national spiritual reconstruction, we shall formulate
and adopt a social code that can be explained in the schools, preached from the pulpits, and taught
in the streets and plazas, and in the remotest corners of our land.
_________________________________________________________________________________

______________4. Teachers are in the best position to inculcate this social code in the youth because they are in the
most contact with them during their formative years at school.
_________________________________________________________________________________

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ASSESSMENT

Answer the following:

1. What is a claim?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

2 -5.) What are the characteristics of good claims?

2. ________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________

4. ________________________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________________

6-10) Complete the following sentences.

6. Explicit information is ___________________________________________________________________________

7. Implicit information is ___________________________________________________________________________

8. Claims of fact state _____________________________________________________________________________

9. Claims of value assert ___________________________________________________________________________

10. Claims of policy posit ___________________________________________________________________________

11-13) Give 3 useful questions when determining a claim of fact.

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14-15) Give 2 useful questions when determining a claim of value.

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16-20) Give 5 useful questions when determining a claim of policy.

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