Reading and Writing Skills

Mrs. Jade Nicole Rivera

 Lesson 3:
Explain Critical Reading
as Reasoning
What is the difference
between Reading and
Critical Reading?
 Critical reading is engaging in analytic
activity which involves the reader by asking
questions about the text and the author’s claim.

Critical readers are doing the process of

evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting the
assertion of the hidden meaning of the whole
text.
 The claim defines what the author wants you to do,
think, or believe by the time you finish reading his or her
work. Your claim is your thesis assertion, or angle. In
logical argument, your argument is only as valuable as its
claim, which needs to be detailed, reasonable, and
supportable with valid evidence.

A claim persuades, argues, convinces, proves, or

suggests something to a reader who may or may not
initially agree with you.
 While reasoning is an act of giving
statements for justification and
explanation. It is the ability of someone
to defend something by giving out
reasons.
STEPS USED IN CRITICAL
READING AS REASONING
1. Identifying assertions/claims
• Identify by a common type of assertion such as
fact, opinion, and preference

2. Formulating counterclaim
• Counterclaims are made to rebut a previous claim.

3. Determining evidence
• Evidence can be details/reasons given by the
authors to support his/her claim.
 CLAIM COUNTERCLAIM EVIDENCE
fact, opinion, or rebuttal to a claim details/reasons given
preference to an to support claims
argument
Children should Children should
have cellphones. not have
cellphones.
 Hedges are words or phrases that give
statements a courteous tone.

Modals: may, could, would, should, might,

certain, must
Frequency adverbs: usually, generally,
commonly
Probability adverbs: probably, possibly,
presumably