READING AND

WRITING SKILLS
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Course Outline
THIRD QUARTER
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 Unit 1: Introductory Unit in Reading,
Writing, and Thinking Strategies
Across Text Types
Lesson 1: Genre, Forms, Text Features, and
Structures
Lesson 2: Critical Reading and Thinking
Strategies
Lesson 3: Types of Writing
Lesson 4: The Writing Process
Unit 2: Reading, Writing, and Thinking
Strategies Across Text Types
Lesson 1: Reading and Writing Narrative Text
Types
Lesson 2: Reading and Writing Expository Text
Types
Lesson 3: Reading and Writing Persuasion Text
Types
Lesson 4: Reading and Writing Descriptive Text
Types
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 Unit 3: Purposeful Reading and
Writing in the Discipline
Lesson 1: Reading and Responding to
Literature
Lesson 2: Workplace Writing: Business Letters
Lesson 3: Workplace Writing: Resume and
Cover Letters
Lesson 4: Purposeful Reading and Writing in
Discipline
Unit 4: Text and Text Connections
Lesson 1: Explicit and Implicit Claims in a
Text
Lesson 2: Context of Text Development
Lesson 3: Determining Textual Evidences
Lesson 4: Formulating Evaluative
Statements
GENRE FORMS, TEXT
FEATURES, AND
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STRUCTURES
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Objectives:
•Classify different texts according to genre
and genre form;
•Recognize the generic features and
structure of specific texts; and
•Identify the pattern of development used in
a specific text
 WHAT IS GENRE?

•Regarded as literary or artistic category

Prose
Poetry Main Literary Genres

Drama
 WHAT IS GENRE?

•Regarded as literary or artistic category

Prose Based on sentences and paragraphs

Contains figurative language: contains

Poetry elements such as line, length, and stanzas

A story told in dialogue by performers before

Drama the audiences
 • Situation and characters are invented by the writer;
allows readers to explore new worlds
Fiction • Novels, novellas, short stories, folktales, etc.

• Deals with real people, places, things, and events

• Uses variety of techniques to achieve a certain purpose
Nonfiction • Personal essays, biographies, autobiographies, etc.
•Work with a partner. List down
titles of five fictional prose forms
and five nonfictional forms you
are familiar with. Exchange list of
another pair.
 FICTIONAL PROSE FORMS NONFICTIONAL PROSE
FORMS
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
4. 4.
5. 5.
I. Lyric Poems – highly musical
A. Narrative Poems
B. Epics
C. Ballads
D. Sonnets
E. Haiku
Comedy – humorous and has a happy
ending

Tragedy – the main character suffers a

downfall

Melodrama – full of exciting events in

which emotions seem to be too real

Farce – a funny play based o ridiculous

events

Historical Drama – play that takes

place in the past. It is based on real
events
LITERARY TEXTS AND
INFORMATIONAL
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TEXTS
 - Consumer, public, and workplace
documents are some examples
Provides
1. Consumer documents are
factual
printed materials that accompany
information
a product or services.
Examples: applications, contracts,
warranties, manuals, brochures,
etc.
 - Consumer, public, and workplace
documents are some examples
Provides
2. Public documents are written for
factual
the public to provide information
information
Examples: Government documents,
speeches, signs, rules and
regulations
 - Consumer, public, and workplace
documents are some examples
3. Workplace documents –
Provides
produced and used within
factual
workplace; aid in the functioning of
information
a business
• Textbooks are materials used I
school
• Newspapers articles provide
timely news
TEXT FEATURES AND
TEXT STRUCTURES
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•These are design elements of a text
that indicate its organizational
structure or make its key ideas and
information more understandable.
 Types of Text
Features
•The title defines the topic
•Headings and subheadings in boldface/italic
type
•Graphic aids
•Timelines
•Questions
•Captions
•Select a book you use in any of your
school subjects. Identify the text
features of that book.
•Present the findings orally in class. Tell
how each feature has helped or can
help you understand the text better.
Title of the book:
Text Features:
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•These are specific ways writers
organize their writing for specific
purpose. They are also called text
structures.
1. Cause-effect organization
-It shows the causal relationships
between ideas.
a) One cause with one effect
b) Multiple causes with single effect
c) Chain of causes and effects
SAMPLE TEXT
2. Compare-and-contrast
organization
- Provides a way to look at the
similarities and differences in two or
more subjects.
SAMPLE TEXT
3. Problem-solution Order
- The problem is stated and
analyzed. This is followed by one or
more proposed solutions.
SAMPLE TEXT
4. Sequence
-May refer to the chronological
order of events or the relevance of
ideas – from the most important to
the least important (it may be the
other way around)
SAMPLE TEXT
5. Main idea and details
-The central idea of the topic is
supported by details.
•Main Ideas
•Supporting Ideas
SAMPLE TEXT
 • Situation and characters are invented by the writer;
allows readers to explore new worlds
Fiction • Novels, novellas, short stories, folktales, etc.

• Deals with real people, places, things, and events

• Uses variety of techniques to achieve a certain purpose
Nonfiction • Personal essays, biographies, autobiographies, etc.
 ACTIVITY 2
•Identify the organizational pattern
used in the given paragraphs.
•Explain why the author(s) used that
organizational pattern.
CRITICAL READING
AND THINKING
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STRATEGIES
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•Determine the specific B
reading strategies to use with J
specific texts; and E
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•Understand the specific T
thinking strategies to use with I
specific texts V
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 Warm Up!
•Take a moment and write down as many
as many actions as possible that can be
associated with reading on the blanks
below.

______________ _____________ ___________

______________ ____________ ___________
 • It means looking at the
readily visible parts of
1. Previewing the text such as titles,
visuals, graphs, charts.
 • Using information you already
know and previous personal
2. Activating
Prior
experiences to create
Knowledge meaning on what you read.
 • Guessing what will
3. Making
happen in a particular
predictions text.
 • Relating what you know on
4. Making the text being presented by
predictions
based on your the author.
schema
 • Creating a visual picture in
the mind of the reader
• This is relevant in reading
5. Visualizing narrative and descriptive
texts
 • Skimming the text means
looking for the main point of
7. Skimming reading.
 • Scanning means looking for
8. Scanning
specific information.
 • Context clues are words,
phrases, and sentences that
9. Using
Context Clues surround an unfamiliar word.
 A. Synonyms
This is used when the text has words
that are similar in meaning to the
unknown word.
1. Alice envisaged the
Jabberwock in her mind. She
imagined its sharp claws and
jaws, then shivered in fright.
2.