ChatGPT said: Textual aids are tools or visual elements used in reading materials to help readers understand, organize, and remember information more easily. These include features like titles, subtitles, diagrams, tables, charts, graphs, maps, and bullet points that highlight key ideas and show relationships between concepts. In short, textual aids make reading clearer and learning more effective by guiding the reader’s attention to important details and helping them grasp the main ideas quickly.

1. LET'S LEARN!
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2. These aids have two main functions,
namely: first, to direct the readers'
attention to important ideas in the text
and second, to provide more information
as a supplement to what is already
written.
THE EFFECT OF TEXTUAL
AIDS ON THE
UNDERSTANDING OF A
TEXT

3. Using textual aids like advance organizers is a great
way for you to dissect and present information in a
more comprehensible way.

4. A text accompanied by illustrations or graphical
representation is easier to understand and follow
compared to a full page monotonous gray text.

5. In short, textual aids are used to present
information or concepts that can be easily
understood.

6. Advance or graphic organizers are visual
displays of key content information to facilitate
understanding of ideas.

7. CAUSE AND EFFECT DIAGRAM/
ORGANIZER
Cause and Effect Diagram/ Organizer is
used to illustrate cause and
effect relationships. It is used to show
why something happens or explain
the effects of something.
It can be presented using different
shapes and the connection between ideas
which can be indicated by the use of lines
and
arrows.

8. VENN DIAGRAM
Venn Diagram is commonly used in
comparing and contrasting / the
simmilarities and differences of two or
more ideas, concepts, characters, places
or things.
It uses circles where the overlapping
portion contains the similarities while
those outside the overlapping section are
the differences.

9. WHAT IS TIMELINE?
• A timeline is a type of graphic organizer
that shows specific events in sequence,
usually with dates, in a linear fashion.
• Timelines are particularly useful for
studying or reviewing history, because
the timeline will display major events
over a period of time.
Timeline also helps you:
✔ Put events in chronological order
✔ Show progress or change
✔ Chronicle historical events

10. ACTIVITY
Select one topic from the list below and present it using any applicablegraphic
organizer you have learned. You may interview someone in your family who has
knowledge about the given topics or you may apply your research skills.
⮚ Similarities and differences between the Filipino youth of
today and those of yesterday
⮚ Cause and effect of this Covid-19 pandemic
⮚ Comparison and contrast of your summer vacation last year
and this year
⮚ Cause and Effect of Gaming Addiction