Lesson 3 - Reading as Information

Let's read Informative texts:

                    You read nonfiction texts, newspapers, trade books, research papers, essays, reports for information. To understand informative texts, identify text features (chapter heads, sub-heads, maps and other graphic representations) and the text structures (definition, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, chronological order), paraphrase the text and organize its important point through summaries, understand the author's purpose, or compare information between and within texts.


Activity 1:

        Read the article on "Are you logical or creative?"

         Our brain has two sides or hemispheres: the left or the rational and the right or the  intuitive; however, what we often use and we may not be aware of it is the information in the conscious left hemisphere of our brain. We do not realize that we do not take advantage of a large amount of creativity, memory and intuition found within the subconscious right hemisphere of our brain.

       Dr. Roger Sperry's experiments reveal that these two sides perform different intellectual tasks. The left hemisphere articulates in speech what it knows it has seen. breaking the information into small pieces; hence, it is analytical. On the other hand, the right hemisphere imagines and perceives things holistically, hence, it is synthetic.

          We should access both hemispheres. We learn in a conscious, methodical way using the left hemisphere. We process information in a subconscious, creative, intuitive way utilizing the right hemisphere. In other words, both reason and intuition are both important to support the whole brain.
                                                                                    source: "Workout for a Balanced Brain,"
                                                                                                  By Philip Carter and Ken Russel


Activity 2:

Convert the following words into nouns using the appropriate suffixes.
1. imagine          ______________________________
2. perceive         ______________________________
3. import            ______________________________
4. inform            ______________________________
5. intellectual    ______________________________
6. utilizing         ______________________________
7. articulate      ______________________________
8. synthetic       ______________________________
9. creative         ______________________________
10. analytical    ______________________________


Activity 3:

Answer the following questions:

1. What idea does the title convey?
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2. What does the first paragraph say about the subconscious hemisphere
     of the brain?
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3. What is the topic sentence of the second paragraph?
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4. What is the relationship between the last paragraph and the title?
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Reference: Developmental Reading 1 by Aida S. Villanueva, PH.D and Rogelio S. Delos Santos pp. 66-68