Reading and Writing

Reading and Writing

Quarter 1 – Module 16: Identify Claims Explicitly and Implicitly in a Written Text: Claim of Value
First Edition, 2020

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Reading and Writing

Quarter 1 Self-Learning
Module 16
Identify Claims Explicitly and Implicitly in
a Written Text: Claim of Value
Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Reading and Writing Self-Learning Module on Identify Claims Explicitly and Implicitly in
a Written Text: Claim of Value.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and reviewed by educators from the
Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma.
Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum using
the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent learning activities at their
own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially
the 5 Cs, namely: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking
into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You also need to keep
track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to
encourage and assist the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

Welcome to the Reading and Writing Self-Learning Module on Identify Claims Explicitly and Implicitly in
a Written Text: Claim of Value.

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purpose. Through our hands, we may learn, create, and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning
resource signifies that you as a learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in your own hands!
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for guided and independent
learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material
while being an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform. Wrap-Up - This section
summarizes the concepts and
application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.

EXPECTATIONS
This is your self-instructional learner module in Reading and Writing. All the activities provided in
this lesson will help you learn and understand: Identify Claims Explicitly and Implicitly in a
Written Text: Claim of Value.
CONTENT STANDARD: The learner understands the relationship of a written text and the context
in which it was developed.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD: The learner writes a 1000-word critique of a selected text on the
basis of its claim/s, context, and properties as a written material.
LEARNING COMPETENCY: Identify claims explicitly or implicitly made in a written text.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Identify sentences that present claims of value;
2. Construct sentences with claims of value; and
3. Realize the importance of dealing with stress intelligently by interpreting an adage.
 PRETEST
Directions: Write C if the following statements are Claims of Value and X if not. Write your answers
on the blanks provided before each number.

_____ 1. Cheating in any form is a sin.

_____ 2. Calculus is more difficult than algebra.
_____ 3. Gadgets are now necessary to learning.
_____ 4. Jewel confronted the issue with her neighbor by uttering too much profanity.

RECAP
We have learned that claims are arguable statements which should be expressed in a very specific
manner. Statements that urge people to take some actions to address a particular issue are all
policy claims while factual claims posit whether things are true or not and these could be verified
thru presenting pieces of evidence.

To begin with our new lesson, let me ask if you agree or not with the statement below. Please
provide an explanation for your answer.

Koreanovela is better than Filipino teleserye.

Obviously, this is an example of a comparative statement. A while ago, you were asked to give your
stand regarding the stated claim. Your answer to this has been based from your own set of
evaluation in judging the statement.

Today, we will be discussing another interesting lesson and this is Claim of Value. Do you have
any idea about this? What thoughts do you have in mind?

LESSON
Claims of value are arguable statements. Discussions normally happen when one attempts to
prove that something is more or less desirable than the other.
Aesthetic and moral arguments are value claims. Statements on the quality of a particular work of
art fall under aesthetics while claims justifying the rightness or wrongness of some actions are
moral claims.

The example, “It’s very inhumane to humiliate someone in public” explicitly states the
inappropriateness of the deed and this is precisely a moral claim.

In addition, value claims are based on a set of personally held criteria. An example of this is ‘I prefer
salty food to sweet food, so potato chips are a better snack than a candy bar.’

You have to remember that claims of value are almost subjective; thus, you have to prepare
persuasive explanations and arguments to defend and prove your stand. One of the strategies that
you could use is to always touch on the emotions of the people and to consider their possible beliefs
and opinions on the issue.

ACTIVITIES
Activity 1
Identify the claims of value manifested in each of the following excerpts. Write your answers on the
space provided.

What will schools look like under the ‘new normal’? (Excerpt) Jess Obana
1.
Over the past decade, online education has emerged as an innovative teaching and learning
method. Countless research devoted to the benefits of online education suggests that online
learning is as good as face-to-face classroom learning.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

2.

Online learning is not new. What is new is that schools are embracing it
as vital to how the next generation of learners are taught.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

3.
 As governments ease out of lockdowns, we will begin to see schools
adopting the blended learning approach. The conscious and careful
blending of face-to-face instruction and online methods can draw the best
of both worlds and create the best teaching and learning experience.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

4.

The biggest challenge for schools transitioning to online learning is the

widening inequality of access to and usage of information and
communications technology (ICT).
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

5.

The COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity for the education sector to

come together, forge connections and share what works. We may have not
seen this before the crisis, but we are missing a greater opportunity if we
do not do this now.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_

Activity 2
Construct a sample claim of value for each of the following pictures below. Write your answers on
the blanks provided.

https://www.google.com/search?q=terrorism&safe=strict&rlz
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

https://www.google.com/search?q=determination&safe=strict&rlz

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

https://www.google.com/search?q=avengers+endgame&safe=strict&rlz

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

WRAP-UP
Complete the following clauses with important ideas you’ve learned from this module.
1. I find today’s lesson very interesting because _____________________. 2. Claims of value are evident
when one _____________________.
3. The article What will schools look like under the ‘new normal’? made me realize
____________________.

VALUING
 Interpret and relate the adage to our present educational
situation. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction
to it.” – Hans Selye

POSTTE
ST
Directions: Choose the most appropriate claims of value for
the following pictures below. Write the letter of the correct
answer on the space before each number.

https://www.google.com/search?q=death+penalty&safe=strict&rl

_____ 1. A. Capital punishment is inhumane.

B. Death penalty does not deter crime.
C. Death penalty should never be amended.

https://www.google.com/search?q=surfing+in+la+union+philippines
&tbm

_____ 2. A. It’s more fun to surf in the Philippines.

B. La Union is one of the tourist spots in the Philippines.
C. Surfing is safer than paragliding.
 https://www.google.com/search?q=GUAVA+VS+ORANGE&tb
m

_____ 3. A. A lot of people prefer oranges than guava.

B. Guava is more nutritious than orange.
C. An orange contains 40 mg of calcium while guava only has
18.

https://www.google.com/search?q=smoking&safe=strict&rlz

_____ 4. A. Deaths due to smoking are expected to double this year. B. Smoking is detrimental.
C. The government should strictly prohibit smoking in public
places.

https://www.google.com/search?

q=SAYING+NO+TO+MEAT&tbm
_____ 5. A. I prefer to eat vegetables than meat.
B. People should be encouraged to more vegetables.
C. I don’t eat meat.
 KEY
TO
COR
REC
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to come
together,
forge
connectio
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share
what
works.
19
crisis

presents an opportunity for the education sector - The Covid 5.

 communications technology (ICT).
quality of access to and usage of information and the widening ine
The biggest challenge for schools transitioning to online learning is 4.
teaching and learning experience.
online methods can draw the best of both worlds and create the best
face instruction and - to - The conscious and
careful blending of face 3.
Online learning is not new. 2.
innovative teaching and learning method.
1. Over the past decade, online education has emerged as an 1.
Activity 1
A 5.
B 4. ANSWERS VARY. Activity 2 X 4.
B 3. C 3.
C 2. C 2.
C 1.
A/B 1.
Pretest
Posttest
References

Obana, Jess. “What will Schools look like under the ‘New Normal’?” The Manila Times, May 13, 2020,
https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/05/13/ business /columnists-business/what will-schools-look-like-
under-the-new-normal/724556/.
“Fact, Value, and Policy Claims”, Accessed June 10, 2020. https://www.unit5.org/cms/lib03/
IL01905100/Centricity/Domain/1254/vern%20persuasive%20patterns.pdf.
“How to Build a Compelling Moral Argument”, Accessed June 10, 2020. https://criticalthinkeracademy.
com/courses/moral-arguments.
“Writing Arguments”, Accessed June 10, 2020. https://www.writingarguments.com/claims-of-value. html.