Jayvie Baladia Margate, LPT Lecturer
Jayvie Baladia Margate, LPT Lecturer
LECTURER
READING
•READING IS A COMPLEX "COGNITIVE
PROCESS" OF DECODING SYMBOLS.
DEVELOPMENTAL
READING
•REFERS TO A COMPREHENSIVE READING
PROGRAM WHICH CONSISTS OF SEVERAL
PERIODS OR STAGES.
READING IS…. That includes the task …enabled by the factors
of… and skills
EXAMPLE:
AN INSECT, A COCKROACH, IS CRAWLING ON
THE TABLE.
LOGICAL FALLACIES
•FALLACIES ARE COMMON ERRORS IN REASONING
THAT WILL UNDERMINE THE LOGIC OF YOUR
ARGUMENT.
•FALLACIES CAN BE EITHER ILLEGITIMATE ARGUMENTS
OR IRRELEVANT POINTS, AND ARE OFTEN
IDENTIFIED BECAUSE THEY LACK EVIDENCE THAT
SUPPORTS THEIR CLAIM.
AD HOMINEM
ATTACKING THE PERSON RATHER THAN THE ARGUMENT
EXAMPLE:
A LAWYER ATTACKING A DEFENDANT’S CHARACTER RATHER
THAN ADDRESSING OR QUESTIONING BASED ON THE CASE –
IN A CASE OF THEFT POINTING OUT THE DEFENDANT’S LEVEL OF
POVERTY.
• HASTY GENERALIZATION- DRAWING CONCLUSIONS BASED ON
INSUFFICIENT OR UNREPRESENTATIVE EVIDENCE.
YOU VISIT A NEW COUNTRY AND THE FIRST PERSON YOU MEET
IN THE AIRPORT IS RUDE. YOU SEND A MESSAGE TO A FRIEND BACK
HOME THAT EVERYONE IN THIS NEW COUNTRY IS RUDE.
• EMOTIONAL APPEAL- AN EMOTIONAL APPEAL IS A METHOD OF
PERSUASION THAT'S DESIGNED TO CREATE
AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE. EMOTION(ALSO KNOWN AS PATHOS OR
SUFFERING IN GREEK) IS ONE OF THE THREE MODES OF PERSUASION
IDENTIFIED BY ARISTOTLE. THE OTHER TWO ARE LOGOS, OR LOGIC,
AND ETHOS, OR AUTHORITY.
1. GROCERY STORE COMMERCIAL THAT SHOWS
A HAPPY FAMILY SITTING AROUND THE TABLE
AT THANKSGIVING.
2. A REAL ESTATE AD THAT SHOWS A HAPPY
YOUNG FAMILY WITH CHILDREN MOVING
INTO THE HOME OF THEIR DREAMS.
LEVELS OF COMPREHENSION
1. LITERAL MEANING
IS SIMPLY WHAT THE TEXT SAYS.
IT IS WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE STORY.
IT PROVIDES THE FOUNDATION FOR MORE
ADVANCED COMPREHENSION.
HERE ARE EXAMPLES OF THE TYPE OF INFORMATION
THAT COULD BE IDENTIFIED AS LITERAL MEANING:
•THE MAIN IDEA
•STATED FACTS
•THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
•CHARACTERS IN THE STORY
INFERENTIAL MEANING
INFERENTIAL MEANING INVOLVES DETERMINING WHAT THE TEXT MEANS.
YOU START WITH THE STATED INFORMATION. THIS INFORMATION IS THEN
USED TO DETERMINE DEEPER MEANING THAT IS NOT EXPLICITLY STATED.