Diocesan Schools of Abra

READING AND WRITING

SECOND SEMESTER

WEEK 6
Claims

Content Standard:
The learner realizes that information in a
written text may be selected and organized to
achieve a particular purpose.

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Name of Student

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 DAY 1
Claims in a Text

Learning Competency:
o Identify claims explicitly or implicitly made in a
written text.

I. MOTIVATION
 Identify the following statements whether it is
a FACT or OPINION.

___________1. Last year there was a horrible outbreak of flu.

___________2. Babies generally start to talk between 18 and
24 months of age.
___________3. The average temperature in Wyoming in
January is 35˚F.
___________4. More people stopped smoking last year than
two years ago.
___________5. Smoke detectors can help save lives.
___________6. Thousands of people die each year from the
interaction of their prescription drugs.
___________7. Cellphones should be banned in all public
school classrooms.
___________8. It’s a fact that soccer and rugby are violent
sports.
___________9. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is a
government agency that is responsible for the
control and suppression of infectious
diseases.
___________10. Surfing the net is more fun than watching TV.

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 What can you say about the activity? What
do you think is the difference between a fact
or an opinion?
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II. INSTRUCTION

CLAIM
 A statement that is not considered accepted
by all
 May be unverified or controversial to a
certain degree
 Usually related to one side of an issue
 Also called a position

Claims of FACT, VALUE and POLICY

Claims of Fact
 Relate to the statement that can be verified, no
matter how difficult
 Not dependent merely on a person’s preference,
but can be true or false

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  Facts that are universally accepted are not
considered claims of fact because there is no more
disagreement about their truthfulness
Example:
1. Santa Clause is real.
2. Cancer is not contagious.
3. The earth is warming rapidly.
4. The atmosphere has too much carbon
dioxide.

Claims of Value
 Evaluative statements
 Statements about which is better, more important,
more desirable, more needed, or more useful
 May also relate to what is good or bad
Example:
1. It’s more fun in the Philippines.
2. This is a very good school.
3. It is more advantageous for a Filipino
child to grow speaking Filipino instead
of English.
4. It is better to be feared than loved.
5. It is better to have loved and lost than
never to have loved at all.

Claims of Policy
 All about what should be
 Prescribe particular course of action that would
lead to a condition.

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  Are usually made in relation to solving societal
problems.
Examples:
1. The death penalty must be revived.
2. A national ID system should be adopted.
3. Beauty contests should be banned.
4. The government must devote more
funds to building schools than building
roads.

Claims of fact – a particular statement is true.

Claims of value – something is important.
Claims of policy – something should be implemented

III. PRACTICE
 Identify what claim is used in the following
statements.

_____________________1. Teachers must have higher salaries.

_____________________2. The Filipino language needs to be
developed.
_____________________3. More people have access to clean
water today than in the 1970s.
_____________________4. Zoos should be abolished.
_____________________5. The earth’s climate is changing fast.
_____________________6. The level of carbon dioxide in the air
is not good.
_____________________7. Firemen in this town should be well-
paid.
_____________________8. Framers in this town need more
training.

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_____________________9. Firemen are not well-trained.
_____________________10. Animals need to be free.
_____________________11. Red is a happy color.
_____________________12. The level of pollution in this city
harms the children.
_____________________13. Cigarette smoking is dangerous to a
person’s health.
_____________________14. Sweden is a peaceful country.

IV. ENRICHMENT
 Identify Explicit and Implicit Claim in a text.
Examples of explicit questions:
o Who are the characters in the story?
o Who is considered a lazy creature?

Examples of implicit questions:

o What did the ant feel about
grasshopper?
o How would you compare the ant from
the grasshopper?
o Why did the ant share his stored food
to the grasshopper?
Underline your answer.
Amber wants to buy a new smart phone but she
doesn’t have the money. Which question from the list
below would be considered explicit?
Why does she need a new phone?
Why can’t Amber buy the smart phone?
How is Amber going to raise the money?
Where does she plan to buy the phone?

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 Wendy was walking home from school when she
found a sick bird lying on the ground under a tree. She
stopped and gave the bird a look. She looked up and
noticed a nest in the branch above her. She looked
forward and continued walking home. What implicit
information can you obtain from this story?
Wendy loves animals.
Wendy is running late for an appointment.
Wendy is a selfish person.
Wendy needs to get home before dark.

A lot of implicit information can be gathered by

looking at a photograph?
True
False

Mr. Cantu walked into the classroom and

slammed the door behind him. He threw his clipboard to
the ground and knocked a pile of papers to the ground.
What color is Mr. Cantu’s shirt? Is this an example of an
implicit question?
Yes
No

An autobiography written about a former

president would be a good way to get explicit information
from?
True
False

If Miss Smith wanted to get into a good nursing

school then she needs to study hard and talk to people
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who are already nurses so that she can know what to
expect from nursing school. What information below is
explicit?
Why she chose to go into nursing.
Who she will talk to about nursing school.
Where the nursing school is.
What kind of school does Ms. Smith want to attend.

DAY 2
V. EVALUATION
 For the following passages, write what you
think is the explicit meaning and the implicit
meaning. Remember that the implicit meaning
must be supported by the explicit material.

I was ten years old when my mother died. Ten

years old on that very day. Still she gave me a party of
sorts. Sick as she was, Mama had seen to it, organizing it at
the hospital. She made sure the doctors and nurses all
brought me presents. We were good friends with them all
by that time because Mama had been in the hospital for so
long.
Explicit: _________________________________________________________
Implicit:
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Once upon a time… as a merchant set off for

market, he asked each of his three daughters what she
would like as a present on his return. The first daughter
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wanted a brocade dress, the second a pearl necklace, but
the third, whose name was Beauty, the youngest, prettiest
and sweetest of them all, said to her father. “All I’d like is a
rose you’ve picked specially for me!”
– Beauty and the Beast, fairy tale
Explicit: _________________________________________________________
Implicit:
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