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Critical ReadingLESSON 5

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Many have not learned to approach textswith a questioning stance that probes for

underlying assumptions or intentions.

Students often read at surface level; ifthey do not get it they give up rather

than engage in the difficulty of the task.Bosley 2008: 286

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High schools typically teach students toread receptively, to read for information.

Many freshman students have not been

taught to read actively or critically, toconstruct knowledge as they read.Bosley 2008: 286

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Critical Reading

Critical =

1. Crucial, significant, serious

2. Fault finding, censorious

Critic=

1. One who forms and expresses, judgements of the

merits, faults, value or truth of matter.

2. One who specializes especially professionally in theevaluation and appreciation of literary or artistic

works: a film critic, dance critic

3. One who tends to make harsh or carping judgements:

a faultfinder

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Types of Reader

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Literal Reading

Literal Reading Entails The Ability:

To recognize words accurately

To identify topic, main ideas, and supporting details

To understand sequence of events

To recognize cause and effect relationships

To interpret directions

To understand organizational patterns used in various types of

reading matter.

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Critical Reading

Critical reading is the process of questioning and

evaluating printed material to determine its accuracy,

depth, relevance and credibility.

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Affective Reading

Affective reading fuses the readers intellectual and

emotional responses to what he or she read

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CR is for?

To enable someone to realize why he/she is

influencedor not influenced by certain issues.

To enable someone to weigh public issues and

make intelligent choices

To enable someone to detect misleading

advertisement claims, recognize the best

values

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Critical Reading = Critical

Thinking Critical reading is themanifestation of

critical thinking

The use of mental ability as a tool of inquiry

- making purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which

results in interpretation, analyze, evaluation, and

inference, as well as explanation of the evidential,

conceptual, methodological, criteria logical, or contextual

considerations upon which that judgment is based, in

reading

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Critical Reading Skills

Distinguishing fact from opinion

Interpreting connotation of words

Discovering the authorspoint of view

Recognizing crooked and fallacious thinking

Detecting propaganda

Recognizing statistical slips

Making inferences

Discovering the authors competence, intention, attitude, authors bias,

time of publication and target readers

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"I did not murder my mother and father with an axe!

Please don't find me guilty; I'm suffering enough

through being an orphan.

"You are studying at a rich college. Therefore you must

be rich."

I've met four Sundanese girls so far, and they were both

very pretty. So, all Sundanese girls are very pretty.

Since Egyptians did so much excavation to construct thepyramids, they were well versed in paleontology."

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ITS TIME FOR AN

ACTVITY

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Have you watched

this?