English Grade 7: Evaluating Informational Text

• The lesson exemplar is for English Grade 7, Quarter 4, Lesson 1, for Week 1 of School Year 2024-2025

Curriculum Content, Standards, and Lesson Competencies

• Learners must demonstrate multiliteracies and communicative competence in evaluating informational texts and transactional texts for clarity of meaning, purpose, and target audience
• This will serve as a foundation for publishing original informational and transactional texts
• Students must analyze the style, form, and features of informational and transactional texts
• Students should be able to evaluate the text for clarity, meaning, purpose, and target audience.
• Learners should compose and publish original multimodal informational and transactional texts using appropriate forms and structures

Learning Competency

• Be able to evaluate informational text in a range of media for clarity of meaning, purpose, form, and function

Lesson Objectives

• Analyze linguistic features in a Problem-Solution Expository Text
• Describe the diction and style commonly used in problem-solution expository texts
• Discipline-specific words, voice, and technical terms can be used in different types of research
• The target audience can also vary i.e. hypothetical vs. real, experts vs. laypeople, managerial vs. rank-and-file
• Students must identify transition markers commonly used in problem-solution expository texts

Day 1 - Activating Prior Knowledge

• Review expository text structure (Sequence, Comparison and Contrast, Problem and Solution, and/or Cause and Effect)
• Read Article #1 (Tumbang Preso) and Article #2 (Luksong Tinik)

Day 2 - Topic 1.A: Analyzing Linguistic Features: Problem-Solution Expository Text

• Examine the diction and style in problem-solution texts
• Students are tasked with reading assigned texts to identify the use of diction, style and transition markers

Progress Made by the Phillipines

• Significant progress has been made towards combating deforestation
• Various programs and policies have been implemented to promote reforestation, sustainable forest management, and biodiversity conservation
• Under the National Greening Program, the Philippines aims to plant 1.5 billion trees across 1.5 million hectares of land by 2028
• The program is already responsible for planting millions of trees and has created thousands of jobs in the forestry sector
• The Philippines also enacted various laws and policies to protect its forests e.g Forest Management Bureau's Community-Based Forest Management Program

Challenges Faced by the Philippines

• Illegal logging contributes to deforestation and has caused the loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, and water pollution
• Increased forest conversion for agriculture

Day 2 - Worked Example: Points for Discussion

• A problem-solution pattern is a way of organizing information into two main sections
• One describes a problem while one describes a solution
• This pattern convinces there reader to support a certain course of action
• Transition words that may indicate information in a passage following this structure: propose, solution, answer, issue, problem, problematic, remedy, prevention, and fix

Day 3 - Subtopic 2: Identifying Transition Markers Commonly Used in Problem-Solution Expository Texts

• Activity involves reading passages and marking the signal words that indicate problem-solution structure in expository texts
• This will engage critical thinking, research, and writing skills, and increase awareness of social issues

Day 4 - Making Generalizations

• Reflect what has been learned from the activities by students and how the lessons influenced their understanding of social issues and importance of problem-solving strategies
• Students should think about how to apply the skills they practiced in this activity to other real-world problems they may encounter

Formative Assessment

• What is the tone typically used in problem-solution essays? - Authoritative and persuasive
• Which of the following is an example of a problem-solution essay topic? - Reducing Plastic Pollution in Oceans
• What distinguishes a problem-solution essay from other types of essays? - It presents a problem and proposes solutions
• Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of effective problem-solution essays? - Presentation of biased viewpoints
• The target audience of problem-solution texts can be diverse and may include a combination of the following: - All of the above (stakeholders, decision-makers, the public)