2. Critical Reading
as Looking for
Ways of Thinking
Reading and Writing Skills
2nd Semester | SY 2016-2017
Miss Hazel Angelyn E. Tesoro
Teacher III
3. Critical Reading vs. Critical Reading
Critical Reading
•Critical reading is
a technique
for discovering
information and
ideas within a text.
Critical Thinking
•Critical thinking is
a technique
for evaluating
information and
ideas, for deciding
what to accept and
believe.
4. Critical Reading vs. Critical Reading
Critical Reading
•Critical reading
refers to a careful,
active, reflective,
analytic reading.
Critical Thinking
•Critical thinking
involves reflecting
on the validity of
what you have read
in light of our prior
knowledge and
understanding of
the world.
5. Sample Text
Parents are buying
expensive cars for
their kids to destroy
them.
•In the context of
the sentence,
“them” refers to
which word?
•Based on your
chosen meaning of
the statement, is
the meaning of the
statement true?
Why or why not?
6. Questions
•Which comes first? Critical reading or
critical thinking? Why?
•By these definitions, critical reading
would appear to come before critical
thinking: Only once we have fully
understood a text (critical reading)
can we truly evaluate its assertions
(critical thinking).
7. Critical thinking allows us to monitor
our understanding as we read.
•If we sense that assertions are
ridiculous or irresponsible (critical
thinking), we examine the text more
closely to test our understanding
(critical reading).
8. Conversely, critical thinking
depends on critical reading.
• You can think critically about a text (critical thinking),
after all, only if you have understood it (critical reading).
• We may choose to accept or reject a presentation, but
we must know why. We have a responsibility to
ourselves, as well as to others, to isolate the real issues
of agreement or disagreement.
• Only then can we understand and respect other
people’s views. To recognize and understand those
views, we must read critically.
10. Why Care to Differentiate Critical
Reading from Critical Reading?
If critical thinking and
critical reading are so
closely linked, what for is
the need that we
differentiate them?
11. Why Care to Differentiate Critical
Reading from Critical Reading?
•We must read each text on its own merits,
not imposing our prior knowledge or views
on it.
•We must evaluate ideas as we read.
•We must not distort the meaning within a
text.
•We must not allow ourselves to force a text
to say what we would otherwise like it to
say—or we will never learn anything new!
14. Critical Reading Strategy #1:
Sentence Completions
Roger said the
report was
significant; Heather
contradicted him,
saying that all the
information
presented was
_______ .
A. contemporary
B. scintillating
C. objective
D. irrevocable
E. immaterial
15. Critical Reading Strategy #1:
Sentence Completions
Roger said the
report was
significant; Heather
contradicted him,
saying that all the
information
presented was
_______ .
A. contemporary
B. scintillating
C. objective
D. irrevocable
E. immaterial
17. Critical Reading Strategy #2:
Passage-Based Questions
After I left the room, I began to
sift my impressions. Only the
day before, an acquaintance had
warned me to watch carefully
for sleight-of-hand tricks,
especially as the man had
earlier been a stage conjuror.
The “acquaintance” mentioned
in line 2 can best be described
as a _____.
A. skeptic
B. hypocrite
C. hoaxer
D. confidant
E. mystic
18. Critical Reading Strategy #2:
Passage-Based Questions
After I left the room, I began to
sift my impressions. Only the
day before, an acquaintance had
warned me to watch carefully
for sleight-of-hand tricks,
especially as the man had
earlier been a stage conjuror.
The “acquaintance” mentioned
in line 2 can best be described
as a _____.
A. skeptic
B. hypocrite
C. hoaxer
D. confidant
E. mystic
Expensive cars bought by parents are just destroyed by their kids.
When we read,
In actual practice, critical reading and critical thinking work together. It’s a continuous cycle.
When we read,
Because Heather is contradicting Roger, the correct response is the word that is most nearly the opposite of “significant.”
Choice (E) is correct.
“Immaterial” means inconsequential or irrelevant.
Information that is immaterial is by definition not significant.
Because Heather is contradicting Roger, the correct response is the word that is most nearly the opposite of “significant.”
Choice (E) is correct.
“Immaterial” means inconsequential or irrelevant.
Information that is immaterial is by definition not significant.
The acquaintance mentioned in line 2 warns the author to “watch carefully for sleight-of-hand tricks.”
Choice (A) is correct.
In warning the author to watch out for tricks, the acquaintance is showing that he is skeptical about the telepathist's supposed powers.
The acquaintance mentioned in line 2 warns the author to “watch carefully for sleight-of-hand tricks.”
Choice (A) is correct.
In warning the author to watch out for tricks, the acquaintance is showing that he is skeptical about the telepathist's supposed powers.
