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The document discusses different reading and writing skills taught in the 4th quarter including creating and reading outlines, developing effective paragraphs, and using post-writing strategies. It defines outlines as summaries that show the essential features and relationships within a text. There are two types of outlines: reading outlines to understand a text's structure and writing outlines to organize ideas before drafting an essay. Effective paragraphs have unity, development, coherence, and organization with only one controlling idea and supporting details per paragraph. Post-writing strategies include revision to improve the overall draft and editing to correct word-level issues.

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Reading and Writing Skills Handouts

The document discusses different reading and writing skills taught in the 4th quarter including creating and reading outlines, developing effective paragraphs, and using post-writing strategies. It defines outlines as summaries that show the essential features and relationships within a text. There are two types of outlines: reading outlines to understand a text's structure and writing outlines to organize ideas before drafting an essay. Effective paragraphs have unity, development, coherence, and organization with only one controlling idea and supporting details per paragraph. Post-writing strategies include revision to improve the overall draft and editing to correct word-level issues.

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READING AND WRITING SKILLS (4TH QUARTER)

Discussant: Angela Beatrise R. Barredo


Teacher: Maria Salome Climacosa

LESSON 3: Creating and Reading Outlines


o OUTLINE
- a summary that gives the essential features of a text
- it shows how parts of a text are related to one another as parts that are of equal
importance, or sections that are subordinate to a main idea

2 Kinds of an Outline:
 Reading Outline – is used to get the main ideas of a text that is already written.
- It helps understand the text’s structure more critically because you will
locate the thesis statement and supporting details.

 Writing Outline – is a skeletal version of the essay that contains the


fundamental points and different ideas that support them.
- Purpose: used as a guide to organize ideas
 This is usually done before writing the draft of an essay.
Why is an outline important?
– reveals the coherenceand complexity
– helps locate the main ideas of the text
–improves one’s understanding towards a text
– for a more organized written output
– for efficiency

STYLES IN WRITING AN OUTLINE


1. Scratch Outline (Topic Outline)
- a simple list of ideas that take the form of words and phrases
- good for its brevity

2. Sentence Outline
- uses sentences to define subject matter
- good for its use of specific details
LESSON 4: Developing Effective Paragraphs with Topic Sentences and
Supporting Details
o Paragraphs
-a group of sentences that deals with one particular idea
- are defined by the controlling idea

Fundamental Rule: Only one idea should be discussed per paragraph.

PARTS OF A PARAGRAPH

 Topic Sentence – the main idea of a paragraph


- Purpose: to propose, to argue, to explain
- Can be : EXPLICIT or IMPLICIT

 Supporting Details – to further elaborate the topic sentence


- Facts, examples, instances

Five Characteristics of an Effective Paragraph

1. Unity
2. Adequate development
3. Coherence
4. Organization
 Chronological Order
– details are arranged in order in which they happened

 Spatial Arrangement
– sentences are arranged according to geographical location such
as left to right, or up to down

 Emphatic Order
– when the information found in a paragraph is arranged to
emphasize a certain point
LESSON 5: Using Post-Writing Strategies

 Post-Writing Strategy is the final stage of writing process.

o REVISION
- the general process of going back through the whole draft to clarify the writing
subject’s meaning
- “to improve”

Steps in Revising:

1. Re-read the whole draft.


*Question to ask yourself: Did the whole draft serve your intended purpose? If no, write
from scratch until the draft achieves your purpose. If yes, proceed to number 2.

2. Review portion by portion.

Essay Revision Checklist

 Is the idea expressed well?


 Is the purpose achieved?
 Did it have all the characteristics of an effective paragraph?

o EDITING
- a more careful process of clarifying the meaning by revising each word and line
of the draft
- “to correct”

First Reading: Check for sentences if it follows the correct subject-verb


agreement and correct pronoun usage.
Second Reading: Check if there are sentence fragments and run-on sentences.
Third Reading: Check for the words’ spelling.
Final Reading: Check if each sentence have proper punctuations.

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