This document provides an overview of key concepts for reading comprehension and writing skills, including:
1. Definitions of terms like text, discourse, organization, coherence, and cohesion.
2. Descriptions of reading processes like pre-reading, reading, and responding, and writing processes like prewriting, drafting, and revising.
3. Explanations of graphic organizers, outlining, thesis statements, and patterns of development for writing like narration, description, and definition.
This document provides an overview of key concepts for reading comprehension and writing skills, including:
1. Definitions of terms like text, discourse, organization, coherence, and cohesion.
2. Descriptions of reading processes like pre-reading, reading, and responding, and writing processes like prewriting, drafting, and revising.
3. Explanations of graphic organizers, outlining, thesis statements, and patterns of development for writing like narration, description, and definition.
This document provides an overview of key concepts for reading comprehension and writing skills, including:
1. Definitions of terms like text, discourse, organization, coherence, and cohesion.
2. Descriptions of reading processes like pre-reading, reading, and responding, and writing processes like prewriting, drafting, and revising.
3. Explanations of graphic organizers, outlining, thesis statements, and patterns of development for writing like narration, description, and definition.
Reviewer: 1st term the text. 4. Exploring by Gionne Carlo Gomez - how the writer achieve his or her purpose. 5. Applying Reading and Writing Skills - transferring or integrating the learnings from a Text read text to other - a large unit of written language situation. - a coherent set of words, phrases, and sentences. Writing Processes 1. Prewriting Discourse - outlining - expression of ideas 6. Drafting - utterance, talk, speech, discussions, - focusing on how ideas will be and conversation. written in pragraphs. Organization 7. Revising - refers to the arrangement of ideas - reviewing the text and in a text. adding more or deleting some information. Coherence 8. Editing - refers to the unity of ideas, - looking for errors in word sentences, and paragraphs in a text. choice, grammar, and mechanics. Cohesion -proofreading your draft. - refers to the connection of ideas at 9. Publishing the sentence level. - sharing useful ideas or the text at large to the readers. Appropriate Language Use - refers to the acceptable writing Graphic Organizer style for a particular form of text. - a text follows a logical structure or arrangement of ideas. Proper Mechanics - charts or pictures that aid you as - refers to the conventions of a reader or a writer. writing such as capitalization, punctuation, correct spelling and 1. Time Pattern Organizer numerals. Keywords: arranged chronologically Reading Processes 10.Space Pattern Organizer 1. Pre-Reading Keyword: description appears - guessing what the text is all in space about based on prior knowledge. 11.Classification Pattern Organizer 2. Reading Keywords: divides a group into - trying to comprehend the subgroups or writer’s ideas through smaller groups. context clues. 12.Comparison and Contrast Pattern 3. Responding Organizer Keywords: show similarities and differences of two or 24.Conclusion more subjects 13.Cause and Effect Pattern Organizer Outlining Keywords: to express why - help you arrange your ideas into an something outline. happened or what resulted in that Lead-in Statement particular event - opening statement that is written as 14.Genralization and Example Pattern an introduction to the subject of a Organizer text. Keywords: explains a general idea and discuss Thesis Statement specific terms - a sentence or two that expresses the 15.Definition Pattern Organizer main idea of a whole text. Keywords: provides a meaning of a new or difficult word Review of Main Point - topic sentences that support the 8. Listing Pattern Organizer thesis statement in the text. Keywords: provides a series of details that does Main Idea not require any order - a general term for the message the writer intends to convey to the readers. Patterns of Development 1. Narration - To tell a story Memorable Statement 16.Description - To appeal to the reader’s - last sentence of the text that help retain in the minds of the readers. senses 17.Definition - To explain the meaning of a Transitional Devices wrod or a concept. 18.Exemplification/ Classification - words or phrases that signal - To explain a category through connections among ideas. an example or vice versa 19.Cause and Effect - To explain the reason and result Comparable Point of a phenomenon or vice versa. - particular properties shared by two or 20.Comparison and Contrast more things that you compare and - To analyze which of the topics contrast. is better or worse. 21.Problem-Solution Block Style - To propose a solution to a - requires the writer to discuss each problem or vice versa topic completely one at a time on the 22.Persuasion three comparable points. - To convince the readers to accept a proposition and take Point-by-Point Style action. - requires the writer to discuss the two topics based on each comparable Components of an Outline point until all points have been 1. Introduction discussed. 23.Body Free Writing - a prewriting technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time.
Note!
• Your answer to the Revision Checklist
should all be “yes” in order to proceed to proofreading. • Outlining has two commonly used format • Alphanumeric Format • Decimal Format
• Three Approaches in writing a
Problem-Solution Text 1. identify the Problem and present the possible solutions. 2. Identify the Solution and present Problems that motivated it. 3. Identify a Problem, present possible solutions then determine the Best solution from the possible solutions presented.