lesson 2

• Critical reading


  Engaging in analytic activity which involves the reader by asking questions about the text and the author's claim
• Critical readers


  • Evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting the hidden meaning of the entire text
• Eastern Samar is an underdeveloped place and is one of the most disaster-prone places in the Philippines
• Because of poverty, residents are forced to live in high-risk places, which makes them prone to disasters
• Disasters in Eastern Samar affect a large number of people by destroying their houses, farmlands, livelihoods, and other personal assets
• Reasoning


  An act of giving statements for justification and explanation
• Reasoning


  The ability of someone to defend something by giving out reasons
• Steps Used in Critical Reading as Reasoning

  1. Identifying assertions

  2. Formulating a counterclaim

  3. Determining evidence
• Assertion


  A common type such as fact, convention, opinion, and preference
• Counterclaim

  Made to rebut a previous claim
• Evidence


  Details given by the authors to support his/her claims
• Hedges


  Words or phrases that give a courteous tone
• Forms of hedges


  • Modals: may, could, would, should, might, certain, must, etc.
  • Frequency adverbs: usually, generally, commonly
  • Probability adverbs: probably, possibly, presumably
• This activity aims to make a conversation between the student and the author of the text
• This inspires the learner to challenge claims in a conversational manner
• The learner should have an in-depth study of the resources used in the text