Lesson 6 - Critical Reading as Looking for Ways of Thinking

• A text

  • can be easily comprehended
  • cannot be easily comprehended
• The meaning of words may be implied in 3 ways:

  1. Text
  2. Reader’s context
  3. Author’s context
• Simple Reading - involves identifying and recognizing the meaning of a text
• Critical Reading - is a more advanced form and a higher level of reading
• Comparison of the Original and the Revised Taxonomy
• Critical Reading - is a type of reading whereby the reader analyzes and interprets the reading presents material to logical know if it presents logical ideas and connection of ideas
• It gives the basic definition of a text.

  Simple Reading
• Its central idea is the message being imparted.

  Simple Reading
• It recognizes what a text says.

  Simple Reading
• The reader absorbs and understands.

  Simple Reading
• After recognizing what a text says, it reflects on what the text does by making judgment.

  Critical Reading
• Its certain goal is to recognize the author’s purpose in writing the material, understand the tone and persuasive elements in it, and to recognize bias in the text.

  Critical Reading
• It recognizes what a text says, reflects on what the text does, and infers on what the text means.

  Critical Reading
• The reader actively recognizes and analyzes evidence in the text.

  Critical Reading
• He is an American writer famous for his tales of mystery and the macabre.

  Edgar Allan Poe
• What is Edgar Allan Poe's date of birth and when did he die?

  (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849)
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

  was first published in 1843 in the Pioneer
• When was Annabel Lee published?


  October 9, 1849
• Annabel Lee was the last completed poem composed by the American author Edgar Allan Poe
• What are the two works that Edgar Allan Poe wrote?

  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Annabel Lee
• •maiden - unmarried

  •seraphs - angel

  •coveted - greatly desired (jealously wants what they don't currently have)

  •chilling - the nights were very cold and windy, which caused Annabel Lee's illness to be exacerbated

  •kingsmen - family members, specifically those of blood relation. •sepulchre - tomb

  •envy - jealousy
• Non-critical thinking makes a person readily accept ideas he/she is exposed to, while critical thinking enables him/her to process and evaluate ideas to come up with his/her own perspective.
• Critical Reading → Critical Thinking
• Critical Thinking - involves a series of complex thought processes which allows you to make reasoned judgments, assess the way you think, and solve problems effectively
• Flow of Creative Thinking

  1. Main vs. supporting details
  2. Summary
  3. Inference
  4. Conclusion
  5. Sequence
  6. Fact vs. Opinion
  7. Cause and Effect
  8. Comparison and Contrast
  9. Problem-Solution
• 1. Getting the Main Idea - involves identifying the general idea in a text which may be explicitly or implicitly stated *Main idea is usually found in the beginning, middle, or end of the text.
• 2. Summarizing - includes recalling all pertinent information and thinking how to compact them all in a summary *Incorporate all important ideas and be guided by the WH questions.
• 3. Inferring - is a process used by a reader to understand an idea that the author does not state explicitly
• 4. Drawing Conclusions - is figuring out much more than what an author says directly
• 5. Analyzing sequence - considers the order of arrangement of events present in the text
• 6. Determining Fact from Opinion

  > Fact – is an idea that is already proven or is obviously true

  > Opinion – is an unverified idea; it may or may not prove to be true
• 7. Understanding Cause and Effect - involves identifying event that causes another event
• 8. Comparing and Contrasting

  > Comparing is determining how things are the same.

  > Contrasting is determining how things are different.
• 9. Identifying the Problem and Solution -involves discussing complex issues and identifying the solution