Oral Reading Fluency:
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
The brain, which is about 1.5 kg, makes up 2
percent of a person’s weight. It is the body’s
command center. It directs the different parts of
the body on what to do. Here, all that your senses
perceive is processed. So, it is from the brain that
your intelligences proceed.
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
In the 1980’s, a professor named Howard Gardner developed a theory he called
Multiple Intelligences. According to him, a person is intelligent or smart in different
ways:
• linguistic
• logical
• spatial
• bodily-kinesthetic
• musical
• interpersonal
• intrapersonal
• naturalist
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
Those who are linguistically intelligent are very good at
words. They can explain very well, convince others, and tell
stories. These are the poets, writers, and orators. Logical
intelligence refers to seeing patterns and relationships and
classifying. Among those who have this kind of intelligence
are scientists, mathematicians, and computer programmers.
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
Spatial intelligence is shown by one’s ability to recreate
what is seen. A cartographer can show the height or depth of a
place through drawing. Painters, architects, and surveyors are
among those who have this kind of intelligence. Those who are
very good at moving their bodies and controlling their movements
have kinesthetic intelligence. Among these are dancers,
athletes, actors, and actresses, and mime artists.
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
Singers, composers, and instrumentalists are among those who are
musically intelligent. Those who are aware of themselves, their moods,
feelings, weaknesses and strengths, and use these to improve their
lives, have intrapersonal intelligence. While those who are very good
at understanding others and use this to persuade or influence them
for a purpose, have a great amount of interpersonal intelligence.
Among these are teachers, counselors, politicians, and administrators.
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
The last kind belongs to those who know plants,
animals, and their habitat very well that they use this
knowledge to care for them, and live with them
harmoniously. These are the people who have
naturalist intelligence.
How Are You Smart?
By Rebecca D. Mendoza
Sometimes, those intelligences are referred to as
ways of being smart. Thus, one can be body smart, word
smart, picture smart, people smart, self-smart, music
smart, nature smart, and logic smart. Can you match these
with the different intelligence? Now that you know how
people can be smart in many ways, how are you smart?
Essential Reading:
Noting Important
Details
Reading is very important in whatever
intelligence a person has. Were you able to note the
important details in the selection? Share with a
partner the details you have highlighted or
underlined.
Noting important details means picking out those
little things that are important to remember in what
you read. Go back to the selection, “How Are You
Smart?” and prepare to answer the questions on page
8 of your Essential English books with a partner.
Essential Reading:
Viewing
You find different kind of intelligences at
work in a movie.
What amazes you when you watch a
movie?
In groups
There are people and elements
responsible for creating and producing
movies:
Director
The director controls everything that will happen
in making the movie. He gives instructions to
other people included in the movie.
Actors and Actresses
They are instructed by the director on what to do
in the scenes in the movie concerning their
movements, posture, and body language while
acting as they deliver their lines.
Dialogue
This is the line delivered by the actors and
actresses. This may be serious, witty, or clever,
but it adds to the plot and the characterization.
Lights and Sounds
Lights and sounds help make the setting real in a
film set cleverly planned and built.
Answer the following questions about the movie
clip you’ve watched:
1. How many actors did you see in the scene of
Journey 2?
2. What did Alex, the old man, want Hank to do?
3. Did you notice the younger actor’s (Sean) face
change in the scene? Why?
4. What can you say about the lights in this scene?
5. What made Hank’s singing funny as he was ending?
6. How did the actors move on the set?
