READING AND WRITING SKILLS – GRADE 11

Name: ______________________________________ Date: ____________________

Grade: ______________________________________ Section: ___________________

Quarter: 4 Week: 5 MELC(s): Identify the unique features of and requirements in

composing texts that are useful across disciplines: (EN11/12RWS-IVac8)
a. Book Review or Article Critique
b. Literature Review
Title of Textbook/LM to Study: Reading and Writing Skills
➢ Chapter: 8 Pages: 1-19 Topic: Composing Academic Writing
➢ Objectives: 1. Identify the unique features, parts, and requirements in writing a
book review and literature review;
2. Analyze the information required in writing a literature review;
3. Write a book review.

Let Us Discover

A book review describes and evaluates a work of fiction or nonfiction and offers the
book’s overall purpose, structure, style of narration to the unknown readers. It tells not only
what a book is about, but also how successful it is at what it is trying to do.
As a reviewer, you bring together the two strands of accurate, analytical reading and
strong, personal response when you indicate what the book is about and what it meant to the
readers. Hence, in writing a book review, you combine your skills of describing the content of
the pages, analyzing how the book achieved its purpose, and expressing your most personal
comments, reactions and suggestions.
The following are the unique features, parts, and requirements in writing a book review:
✓ It is a sneak peek at a book, not a summary.
Unique Features ✓ the length of the review depends upon the length of the book itself
✓ a review should not be less than 100 words. Longer books usually
asks for more than 500 words.
✓ A book review title should be based on your total impression of a
book
Parts of the Book Review Requirements in Writing a Book Review
➢ Identify the book by author, title, and sometimes publishing
information.
➢ Specify the type of book (for example: fiction, nonfiction,
Introduction biography, and autobiography). Help your readers to review with
perspective.
➢ Mention the book’s theme and state the thesis statement.
➢ Include background, if necessary, to enable reader/s to place the
book into a specific context.
➢ You may also use an interesting quote, an interesting fact, or an
explanation of a concept or term.

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 ➢ Pay primary attention to the major points (the argument) the author
Body is putting forth and to the sources the author has drawn upon to
back up his/her point of view for nonfiction; or to the important flow
and elements of the story for fiction
➢ Provide your reactions to the book.
➢ Describe the book.
➢ Respond to the author’s opinions and analyze it.
➢ Explore issues the book raises.
➢ Relate your argument to other books or authors.
Conclusion ➢ Relate the book to larger issues.
➢ Tie together issues raised in the review.
➢ Briefly restate your main points and your thesis statement.
➢ Indicate how well the book has achieved its goal, what
possibilities are suggested by the book, what the book has left
out, how the book compares to others on the subject, what
specific points are not convincing, and what personal experiences
you’ve had related to the subject.

A literature review (LR), on the other hand, is a type of academic essay that examines
what has already been written about a topic. As a collection of published research about your
topic by recognized scholars and researchers, it is a way for you to examine also what has
already been done in regard to your research question or problem. Likewise, it summarizes
and synthesizes the conducted research driven by guiding principles. Although, it is not a
research paper, it provides background for your problem and a rationale for your research
(Abadiano, 2016).
Literature reviews consist of the following components and its purposes or
requirements:

✓ Defines the topic and the scope being considered

Introduction ✓ Notes intentional exclusions
✓ States the general findings of the review and the availability of the
sources

✓ Organizes the evaluation of the sources whether chronologically or

thematically
✓ Showcases the critical summary and evaluation of the research’s
Body premise, methodology, and conclusion
✓ Uses grammatical connectors, relational words or phrases and
transitional devices

Conclusion ✓ Summarizes the key findings of the review

✓ Offers the reviewer’s justification of the conducted research

✓ Reflects the in-text citations

Reference ✓ Contains complete and correct citations

Here are the Four (4) Literature Review Strategies:

Summary Synthesis
State briefly the argument and main Combine ideas in order to form an integrated
points of relevant research theory or system through critical evaluation,
compare/contrast, etc.
Analysis Evaluation
Examine closely the elements or Assess the research based on the criteria or
structure of the research rubric that you choose, state, and explain.
Support with another similar research.

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 Let Us Try
Identify what feature, part, or requirement of book and literature review is
being described in each statement. Write the correct answer on the blank.
____________1. A book review usually asks for how many number of words?
____________2. This part of the book review provides the author’s name, book article’s
name, and sometimes publishing information.
____________3. This part of the literature review organizes the evaluation of the sources
whether chronologically or thematically.
____________4. This part of the literature review offers the reviewer’s justification of the
conducted research.
____________5. This strategy of literature review strategy examines closely the elements or
structure of the research.

Let Us Do
Analyze the information or ideas from the article that are required to be included
in each part of the review. Please be guided with the components and requirements in
writing the parts of the literature review. Write your answers in the table provided.
Women Talk Too Much
(An excerpt from an article written by Janet Holmes)
Do women talk more than men? Proverbs and sayings in many languages express
the view that women are always talking:
Women’s tongues are like lambs’ tails – they are never still. – English
The woman with active hands and feet, marry her, but the woman with overactive
mouth, leave well alone. – Maori
Some suggest that while women talk, men are silent patient listeners.
When both husband and wife wear pants it is not difficult to tell them apart – he is the
one who is listening. – American
Nothing is so unnatural as a talkative man or a quiet woman. – Scottish
Others indicate that women’s talk is not valued but is rather considered noisy,
irritating prattle:
Where there are women and geese there’s noise. – Japanese
Indeed, there is a Japanese character which consists of three instances of the
character for the concept “woman” and which translates as “noisy”! My favorite proverb,
because it attributes not noise but rather power to the woman speaker is this Chinese one:
The tongue is the sword of a woman and she never lets it become rusty.
So what are the facts? Do women dominate the talking time? Do men struggle to get
a word in edgewise, as the stereotype suggests?

Parts Information from the Article that should be Reviewed or Analyzed

Introduction

Body

Conclusion

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 Let Us Apply
Write a book review of a novel or book story that you like most. Be guided
with the parts and requirements that you need to include in your book review. (You
may use a separate sheet for this)

Rubrics

Rubric for Writing a Book Review

5 4 3 2
(Exceeds (Meets Expectations) (Approaching (Does Not Meet
Expectations) Expectations) Expectations)
Introduction The introduction is very The introduction is The introduction is The introduction is
interesting and catchy interesting and catchy interesting but not so not so interesting and
catchy not catchy
Summary / The summary of the The summary of the The summary of the The summary of the
Organization review is organized in a review is organized in a review is not so review is not
logical order and leaves logical order and leaves organized leaves the organized, leaving the
the reader with a very the reader with an reader with a fair reader a little reason to
effective, very clear, and effective, clear, and portrait of the novel or read the novel or book.
very interesting picture of interesting picture of the book’s story
the novel or book’s story novel or book’s story.
Opinion/ The reviewer offers The reviewer offers The reviewer offers The reviewer offers
Commentary more his/her opinion on his/her opinion on the less of his/her no opinion of or
the book’s aspects. The book’s aspects. The opinion on the book’s commentary on the
reviewer also writes a reviewer also writes a aspects. The book or novel.
very convincing convincing reviewer also writes
recommendation. recommendation. recommendations to
the reader.
Grammar and The reviewer makes no The reviewer makes The reviewer makes The reviewer makes
Mechanics error in grammar, very few errors in few errors in some errors in
spelling, and mechanics. grammar, spelling, and grammar, spelling, grammar, spelling,
mechanics. and mechanics. and mechanics.

References

2020 Most Essential Learning Competencies

DepEd K to 12 Senior High School Reading and Writing Curriculum Guide

Department of Education. (2016). English for Academic and Professional Purposes. Quezon
City, Philippines: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House, Inc.
Emerson, T. & Colarina, A. (2020). Reading and writing skills: Composing academic writing.
DepEd Self Learning Module. Quarter 4, Module 8.

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