Reading and Writing Strategies for Grade 11 PDF

Reasding and Writing 11 Reading and Thinking Strategies across Text types Benncel Marie I. Gornez, LPT READING is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from a text. It is always an interaction between the text and the reader. We read to gain and share information...

Reasding and Writing 11 Reading and Thinking Strategies across Text types Benncel Marie I. Gornez, LPT READING is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from a text. It is always an interaction between the text and the reader. We read to gain and share information and ideas for academic, personal, or professional purposes. Reading is also a skill that can be improved through consistent practice. In order to comprehend the text, we apply many skills simultaneously while we read: identifying the author’s purpose, grasping the main ideas of the text, locating essential details, using context clues to understand familiar words, and many more and applying Effective Reading  Previewing It means looking at the readily visible parts of the text, like titles and subtitles, as well as visuals and graphs, pictures, and charts. Previewing helps familiarize you with the contents of the selection and focus on the important information in the text. Reading Closely and Analyzing Text 01 Reading Closely and Making Logical Inferences  Skimming and Scanning Skimming the text means you look for the main point of the reading and identify the ideas that develop it. Skimming effectively means physically moving your eyes rapidly along the page and tracing your finger along the lines of the text to speed up your reading. Meanwhile, scanning the reading is looking for specific information. To scan the text effectively, you need to have an idea of the details you are looking for. Reading Closely and Analyzing Text 01 Reading Closely and Making Logical Inferences PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT IN WRITING No one learns to write effectively without learning the basic elements of writing. You might have thought of why other students can write better than you do. Most likely, you have also wondered why some of them can write fast, when you find it difficult to even start your paragraph. Are there really people born with a talent in writing? Or like any other craft, can writing be learned by anybody who is interested to write? 02 Citing Specific Textual Evidence in a Text  Every writer writes for a reason. When person is happy and in love, he/she gets inspired to write to inform the world of his/her feelings. A couple who are to be married may write their own vows for each other. When a teacher requires the students to submit an essay, an article or a short story. Whatever is the reason why a person writes, he writes for a purpose. This purpose is maybe to inform, to explain, to convince, to impress, to entertain or simply to share an experience. Reading Closely and Analyzing Text 02 Citing Specific Textual Evidence in a Text  PROPERTIES OF A WELL-WRITTEN TEXT A. ORGANIZATION A well-organized text helps to ensure that the writer is able to effectively communicate what ideas he/she wants to impart to the readers. This will be done using clear and logical pattern when it comes to writing. When there is no pattern, confusion results. Clear organization makes it easy for the reader to remember the information presented  PROPERTIES OF A WELL-WRITTEN TEXT 1. Chronological Pattern – This pattern arranges the ideas according to time, either backward or forward – ideas which occur first or which occur second, and so on. This works well with the different modes of paragraph development like narration, process  PROPERTIES OF A WELL-WRITTEN TEXT 2. Spatial or Geographical Order – It has something to do with space. It arranges information according to how thing fit in a physical space. This could be any space like a room or building. This pattern can be used for paragraph development such as description and example. Transition words like above, beneath, in front, nearby, to the right, underneath is used.  PROPERTIES OF A WELL-WRITTEN TEXT 3. Topical or Logical Order – This is used when the writer is to present several ideas that are interrelated (connected). Moreover, this can be done when enumerating instructions or directions on how to do something since a process is involved. Development by example, comparison and contrast, definition, analogy, process analysis and classification are associated with this pattern. Transitional words like first, second, also, another is used. B. COHERENCE AND COHESION Writing is cohesive when one idea sticks to another idea, a sentence to another sentence and a paragraph sticks to next. It only means that your writing should achieve unity. If you combined the information, did it make sense? B. COHERENCE AND COHESION Writing is coherent when all the sentences in a paragraph are focused on the central thought, which is your topic sentence. It only means that there is that connection between the different pieces of information stated on a piece of writing. Every statement should be anchored from what is being talked about. It should speak of the topic and must be related to the concept. D. MECHANICS As a writer, there are rules or mechanics that you must consider and remember when writing. These rules do not only cover your knowledge in the way you organize your ideas as what has been discussed earlier. You must apply what you have learned about S-V agreement, capitalization, punctuations, spelling, writing numbers, and the like.