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2 Critical Reading
2 Critical Reading
Quarter 3 Week 3
MOST ESSENTIAL
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
1. Explain critical reading as
looking for ways of thinking;
2. Identify claim of fact, policy,
and value explicitly or
implicitly made in a written
text.
INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY
Identify five (5) characteristics of
a critical reader.
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5.
CRITICAL READING
When you read something and you
evaluate claims, seek definitions,
judge information, demand proof,
and question assumptions, you are
thinking critically.
2. Defining Claims
Whenever you read something, you find yourself
looking for the writer’s point or position regarding
the chosen topic. That point is also known as the
claim, or the central argument or thesis
statement of the text. This claim is what the writer
tries to prove in the text by providing details,
explanations, and other types of evidence.
SKILLS NEEDED IN CRITICAL READING
2. Defining Claims