Ryza Grace Donaire Grade-12-OLH(HUMSS)

What I can do
Let's Do It!

Directions: Read the excerpt of an article critique. Answer the questions that follow. Use
the reading strategies you have learned from the previous discussion. Write your answer in
your notebook.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 expects all students to achieve proficient levels of
knowledge in core subject areas. Teachers of English language learners (ELL) face the
added challenge of providing meaningful and accessible curricula while integrating English
language and literacy development. This research study addresses ELL students' low
science achievement in the context of national standards and accountability in the 2006-
2007 school year.

Several studies have examined the influence of professional development interventions on

students' science achievement. Research suggests that hands-on and inquiry-based science
lessons develop literacy as well as content knowledge. Research also indicates that
students' science achievement is positively correlated with the amount of teacher
professional development. This study builds upon existing research by using a quasi-
experimental design to assess students' science achievement after the first-year
implementation of a professional development intervention that focused on science
achievement, literacy, and math skills. Specifically, the study addresses three research
questions: (1) whether treatment group students show gains in science achievement, (2)
whether gaps in science achievement change for ELL and low-literacy (retained) students
in the treatment group, and (3) whether treatment group students perform differently
compared with non-treatment group students on a statewide mathematics test,
particularly on the measurement strand that is emphasized in the intervention.

1. Is there a statement of the Problem? Write it below?

Problem about student’s achievement

2. What is the background information of the problem? State it below?

It is all about the “No Child Left Behind Policy”. It has been studied that students
needs to achieve a proficient levels of knowledge. That no students left behind.

3. Is the educational significance of the problem discussed? What is it? Write it below.
The purpose of a problem statement is to: Introduce the reader to the importance of
the topic being studied. The reader is oriented to the significance of the study and
the research questions or hypotheses to follow.

4. What is your impression about this article? Use a concept map to illustrate your answer.

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Act of 2001 was passed by US government in the reign of
President Bush. The main objective was this was to ensure that education, primary
and secondary is available to all students and no student is left behind who cannot
afford education or has some other limitations. It was indeed a very good initiative
by Bush government.

POST ASSESSMENT

Let's Answer This!

Multiple Choice

Directions: Choose the best strategy to use in the following conditions. Write the letter of
your answer in your notebook.

1. Determine what you think will happen in the text.

A. Visualize

B. Predict

C. Connect

D. Clarify

2. Create mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text.

A. Connect

B. Visualize

C. Clarify

D. Evaluate

3. Stop and ask yourself questions to see if the text makes sense
A. Clarity

B. Evaluate

C. Question

D. Predict

4. Think about what you already know about the text. Find ways to relate the text to

yourself, other texts, and the world around you.

A Predict

B. Visualize

C. Clarity

D. Connect

5. Think about the text as a whole and form opinions about what you read.

A. Evaluate

B. Question

C. Predict

D. Connect

6. Stopping when you are confused to reread or look up a word you don't know.

A Connect

B. Clarity

C. Evaluate

D. Predict

7 When you give your opinion of a book or story, you are using the______ strategy

A. Question

B. Evaluation

C. Summarize

D. Clarify
8. Making pictures in your mind as you read is an example of

A. Predicting

B. Connecting

C. Visualization

D. Clarifying

9. Wondering about why a character acted in a certain why is using the

comprehension skill of______

A. Visualizing

B. Summarizing

C. Predicting

D. Questioning

10. "This story reminds me of something I heard on the news," is an example of which

strategy?

A Visualizing

B. Connection

C. Clarifying

D. Summarizing

Essay 2: Why is Education Important in Our Society?

Introduction

Education is more than just learning from books, and it is a shame that a lot of schools do
not see that it is more than just a curriculum and school score. A good education can teach a
child how to learn so that the child may take up independent leaming as an adult.
Education may also teach a child how to reason so that a child does not grow up to be
ignorant.

Persuasive point 1:
The biggest selling point for education in our society is the fact that it helps people learn
how to learn. It is not about the knowledge they accumulate, it is the way a child is taught
how to "learn" things. A child may come away from school not knowing a lot of the course,
but if that child has been taught how to learn, then that child may become an adult that
learns everything he or she needs in life. Otherwise. that child may grow up to be a person
that cannot see the obvious because he or she cannot reason and consciously learn new
things.

Persuasive point 2:

Education teaches people how to reason, and if they are taught how to reason well, then
they help subdue their own thoughts of ignorance. For example, there are lots of posts and
websites on the Internet about childhood vaccinations and how dangerous they are.
Ignorant people than never learned how to reason will look at them, believe them and
support them. If a person is taught how to reason then he or she will know how to
recognize empirical evidence.

Persuasive point 3:

That person would look at all the people in the US that have had childhood injections (most
of them) and then look at all the people with autism. They would reason that if childhood
vaccinations caused autism then most of the people in the US would have autism. If a
person is taught how to reason then that person may see how people that smoke seem
more likely to develop emphysema than people that do not smoke. They would then reason
there is a link between smoking and emphysema. This sort of reasoning can be taught in
schools, and if children are not taught it then they walk around risking their children's lives
by not vaccinating them, and walk around smoking because their daddy smoked for years
and it never hurt him.

Persuasive point 4:

Conclusion

If education is not seen as important, then one day it will just be all about school scores and
hitting the factors of a curriculum. There will be a day when children start to hate learning
because school put them off it for life (this already happens in some cases). Plus, without
education teaching people how to reason things out and teaching them how to separate
what is fact from what is faulty evidence, then our society will become more and more
ignorant until a smarter country simply marches over and takes our country from under
out ignorant noses.

ACTIVITY 2
Directions. From the essay #2, complete this organizer with persuasive points for

each of the paragraphs following the thesis statement below. Write your answer in

your notebook following the format below.

Thesis statement:/will show you the two best reasons why education is important in our
society

The persuasive points from each paragraph of the essay can be identified only when the
reader reads the essay carefully. As the persuasive points are the ones that help the reader
to get influenced by the reading.

Paragraph 1

Persuasive point/s: .

Paragraph 2

Persuasive point/s:

Paragraph 3

Persuasive point/s:

Paragraph 4

Persuasive point/s

Paragraph 5

Persuasive point/s:

ACTIVITY 3

Directions: After identifying the persuasive points, in your notebook, write a summary of
the text.