Critical Reading as a

Form of Reasoning
 LEARNING COMPETENCY

◆ Explains critical reading as

reasoning (EN11/12RWS-IVac-8)

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 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

◆ Identifies reading, critical

reading & critical thinking;
◆ Differentiates critical reading
from critical thinking

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BRAIN TEASER!!!

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Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters
and each daughter has one brother. How
many people are in the Mustard family?

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BRAIN TEASER!!!

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What has six faces, but does not
wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes,
but cannot see? "What is it?"

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BRAIN TEASER!!!

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There are 20 people in an empty, square room.
Each person has full sight of the entire room and
everyone in it without turning his head or body, or
moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where
can you place an apple so that all but one person
can see it?
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 Girls most likely do well in academics
during high school years but boys get
ahead of them in college. Female
teenagers are more concerned with
their physical appearance than male
teenagers.
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 What is
Reading?
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 “

Reading is a process in which the information

from the text and the knowledge possessed by
the reader get together to produce meaning.
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– Richard Anderson
 2.
What is Critical
Reading?

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 Critical
◆ ‘Critical” means to express criticism
or disapproval about something like
a book, movie or piece of art, etc.,

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 Critical Reading
◆ It is a skill.
◆ Critical reading involves criticizing
any information that you read or hear.
◆ It means not easily believing
information offered to you by a text.
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 Critical Reading
◆ It is engaging yourself about what
the author or writer is trying to tell
you in his or her writing, or being
focused on the intention or the
argument being presented in the
material.
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 Critical Reading
◆ It is exercising your judgement about the
material being read, and not just
accepting or being satisfied with
everything that is presented by the author
without analyzing the points, especially
the author’s opinions whether true, valid
or acceptable.
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 Reading vs. Critical Reading
Reading Critical Reading
Purpose To get a basic To form judgement
grasp of the text about HOW the text
works
Activity Absorbing or Analyzing, interpreting,
understanding evaluating

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 Reading vs. Critical Reading
Reading Critical Reading
Focus What text SAYS What a text DOES and
MEANS
Direction With the text Against the text
(ignoring whether (questioning the claims,
it is right or assumptions, arguments)
wrong)
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 Reading vs. Critical Reading
Reading Critical Reading
Questions What is the text How does the text work?
saying? How is it argued?
What choices are made?
What can I get
What kinds of reasoning and
out of it? evidence are used?
What are the underlying
assumptions?
What does the text mean?
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 3.
What is Critical
Thinking?

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 Critical Thinking
◆ Critical thinking is the ability to
think clearly and rationally, and the
ability to understand the relation of
ideas presented.

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 Critical Thinker Characteristics
1. Understands the relation of one idea
to another
2. Determines the importance and
relevance of ideas and arguments
3. Recognizes, builds and appraises
arguments
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 Critical Thinker Characteristics
4. Identifies inconsistencies and errors
in reasoning
5. Approaches problems in a
consistent and systematic way
6. Reflects on the justification of his
own assumptions, beliefs and values
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 What are the
similarities and
differences
Critical Critical each of Critical
Reading and
Reading Thinking Critical
Thinking.

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 REFERENCES

◆ https://www.riddles.com/brain-teasers

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 You can also split your content

White Black
Is the color of milk and fresh Is the color of ebony and of
snow, the color produced by the outer space. It has been the
combination of all the colors of symbolic color of elegance,
the visible spectrum. solemnity and authority.

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 In two or three columns

Yellow Blue Red

Is the color of gold, butter Is the colour of the clear Is the color of blood, and
and ripe lemons. In the sky and the deep sea. It is because of this it has
spectrum of visible light, located between violet and historically been
yellow is found between green on the optical associated with sacrifice,
green and orange. spectrum. danger and courage.

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