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Pepe climbed the guava tree near
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his house. It had many ripe fruits. He
READING POWER 4 picked as many as he could and put
them in his pocket. Then he sat on a
branch and began eating them.
While he was eating, he felt the
SKILL A branch break. He did not know it was
(Noting Details) a dead branch.
Down, down he fell!
After that, he did not know what
happened. When he woke up, he was
in a hospital bed. His two arms were
in cast.
 PEPE AND THE GUAVAS
Answer the questions:
1. Who climbed the guava tree?
2. Where was the guava tree?
3. What were on the tree?
4. Where did Pepe put the fruits
he picked?
5. Where did he sit?
6. What did he do next?
7. What began to break?
8. What happened to him?
9. Did Pepe know what
happened to him?
10.When he woke up, where was
he?
HOW DAN LEARNED TO RIDE A
HORSE
One day, Lito invited his cousin, Dan,
to his fathers farm in the barrio. Dan
lived in the town.
Lets ride on my horse, Lito said.
I dont know how to ride a horse,
said Dan.
Its easy! Im going to teach you.
Lito got his horse and rode easily on
its back. Come on! Hold my hand and
place one foot on mine while I pull you
up, he said.
At first Dan was afraid, but when he
tried, he found it easy. He did not feel
afraid anymore.
Together they rode far across the
field. It was already dark when they
reached home.
 HOW DAN LEARNED TO RIDE A
HORSE
Answer the questions:
1. How were Dan and Lito related?
2. Where did Dan live?
3. Where did Lito invite Dan?
4. Where would they ride?
5. How did Lito ride on the horse?
6. Did Dan learn about riding a
horse?
7. What did Dan learn about riding
a horse?
8. Did they ride together in the
same horse?
9. Where did they go riding?
10.When did they go home?
AT THE PUBLIC PLAYGROUND
The public playground was full of
children. They were shouting with joy.
The smaller children were playing in
the sand boxes. They were digging
the sand and filling their pails. The
bigger boys and girls were having fun
riding on swings.
Some big boys were chinning the
bar. Others were climbing the big
tower and were sliding down. Some
of them were busy playing on the
seesaws, going up and going down.
Some girls in bathing suits were
swimming in the pool.
 AT THE PUBLIC PLAYGROUND
Answer the questions:
1. Where were the children?
2. How did they show they were
happy?
3. Who played in the sand
boxes?
4. What did they do?
5. How did the bigger boys and
girls have fun?
6. Who chinned the bar?
7. How did the children go down
the tower?
8. What went up and down?
9. Who were swimming in the
pool?
10.What were they wearing?
AUNT DANDING
Last December, Aunt Danding, a
nurse, came home from America to
visit her family. She stayed for a month
in Manila.
Before she left for America last
January, she had a picnic with the
family. They went to Los Baos, Laguna
in a big car. They saw all the
interesting places there. They went
swimming in the hot springs. Aunt
Danding enjoyed every minute of it.
She enjoyed seeing the children watch
the animals in the little zoo. They were
all happy. When they got hungry, they
ate all the food they brought.
 AUNT DANDING
Answer the questions:
1. Where does Aunt Danding live
now?
2. When did she come to Manila?
3. Whom did she visit?
4. How long did she stay in
Manila?
5. Why do you think did she
come to visit?
6. Why is Aunt Danding in
America?
7. When did she have a picnic
with her family?
8. Where did they go for a picnic?
9. Where did they go swimming?
10. How did Aunt Danding enjoy
her visit?
ANAS PET
Mother bought two piglets. She had a
pigpen ready for them.
These pigs should be given a good
care, she told Ana. Can you help me
take care of them?
Of course, Mother, answered Ana.
Ill help you take care of them.
So Ana became the caretaker of the
piglets. She cleaned the pen early in the
morning and gave them baths. She fed
them swill which she got from their
neighbors.
Soon the piglets grew big and fat.
When they were ready for sale, Ana felt
sad. She knew mother would get a good
price for them but she would lose her
pets.
 ANAS PET
Answer the questions:
1. What dis Anas mother buy?
2. Where did she keep them?
3. Whom did she ask to help her
take care of them?
4. Did Ana like to take care of the
pigs?
5. What new job did Ana have?
6. At what time of the day did
Ana clean the pigpen?
7. Who gave baths to the pigs?
8. Where did Ana get the swill for
the pigs?
9. What happened with the pigs?
10.How did Ana felt when the pigs
were sold?
11.
A SIGN OF GROWTH
One morning little Jun could not
walk well with his shoes on.
Whats wrong with your feet,
Jun? asked Mother. Do your shoes
hurt?
Yes, Mother, replied Jun. My
shoes do not fit me anymore.
Father made Jun take off his shoes
and wear his old rubber shoes.
You are growing, Jun, Father
explained. When your shoes get too
tight for you, you need bigger ones.
Your feet are growing. Its a sign that
your body is growing, too. Soon youll
be a big boy.
 A SIGN OF GROWTH HOW OUR FOREFATHERS KEEP
Answer the questions: THEMSELVES CLEAN
1. When did the story happen? Our forefathers were clean and
neat. They kept themselves clean by
2. What could Jun not do well?
bathing often and wearing clean
3. What hurt his feet? clothes.
4. Who made Jun take off his To keep their black hair clean,
shoes? they used the suds of gugo bark and
5. What would Jun wear? boiled in water for their soap. Their
6. Why did his shoes become hair smelled sweet with their
tight? perfumed oil. To keep their teeth
7. What did Jun need in place of even, they filed them with iron or
stones while they were young. Their
his tight shoes?
teeth looked red because of the
8. What was happening to Jun? betelnut they chewed to preserve
9. What is the sign of growing them.
feet?
10. What will Jun soon become?
HOW OUR FOREFATHERS KEEP THE
THE
FIRST
FIRST
CAIMITO
CAIMITO
HARVEST
HARVEST
THEMSELVES CLEAN Domingsthe
Answer father planted a caimito tree
questions:
some years ago. Last October it began to
Answer the questions: bear 1.its Who planted
first flowers. Thea fruits
caimito weretree?
very
1. What is the story about? slow in2.growing.
When Doming
did hecould
planthardly
it? wait to
2. What words describe our see them ripen.
3. day
One When did it
Doming sawbear itsdark
a big, firstviolet
forefathers? fruit. flower?
3. How did they keep themselves Father, Father!
4. How fast he
didshouted.
the fruitsThere is a
grow?
clean? ripe caimito now.
4. What was the color of their hair?
5. What
Doming did
looked upDoming see
at the other one
branches.
5. What did they use as soap to Oh! day?
There are some more. They are
hidden behind the leaves. Come, Father, lets
keep their hair clean? 6. Whom did he call?
get them all.
6. Did they use soap in those days? 7. What
There were did hetwenty
about see on thewhich
fruits other
7. What made their hair smell Domingsbranches?
father picked from the tee. They
sweet? were the first harvest. They were all sweet
8. Where were they hidden?
and delicious.
8. What did they do with the gogo 9. How many fruits did
bark?
9. How were their teeth kept even? Domings father pick?
10. What made their teeth look ugly? 10. How did they taste?
 A FAMILY OF MUSIC LOVERS
The Santos family are fond of
music. All of them have good singing
voices and all can play the piano. Mr.
Santos is their teacher and Mrs.
Santos is their pianist.
People enjoy listening to them
when they are practicing, more so
when they sing Filipino songs. The
songs make the listeners happy.
Lita, Raul, Emil, Nila and Anita
sing with feeling. While singing they
watch Mr. Santoss hand, so they
know when to sing louder or softer.
 A FAMILY OF MUSIC LOVERS
Answer the questions:
1. How many children are in the
family?
2. What do all of them have?
3. What kind of family are the
Santoses?
4. What instrument can they play?
5. Who is their teacher?
6. Who is their pianist?
7. How do people feel while they
are listening to the Santoses?
8. How do the children sing?
9. What kind of songs make the
listeners feel happier?
10. What is the childrens sign in
singing louder or softer?
FLOWERS FOR MOTHER
This is a story about Apolinario Mabini.
One day Pule mother was waiting for
her children to come home from school.
After a while she heard some voices from
the yard. She was glad her sons were
already home.
Mother! Mother! called one of her
son. Pule will be a little late. He said he
has something to get for you.
A little later Pule came. He had some
flowering plants with him.
These are for you, Mother, Pule said. I
got them for you along the way. I know you
love flowers.
How thoughtful Pule was! Instead of
getting angry, his mother felt very happy.
 FLOWERS FOR MOTHER
Answer the questions:
1. About whom is the story?
2. Who was waiting for the
children?
3. Where did the boys come
from?
4. What did Pule tell his
brothers?
5. When did Pule come home?
6. What did he bring with him?
7. Where did he get them?
8. What did Pule know about his
mother?
9. What kind of a boy was Pule?
10. How did his mother feel when
he gave her the flowers?
THE ARTESIAN WELL
Nonoy lived in a little barrio far
from the town. He had to wake up
early every morning to fetch
water from a well. He had to make
several trips before he could fill a
big jar.
One day, men came to the
barrio to drill an artesian well. In
ten days the artesian well was
ready. It was like there was a
fiesta. Barrio people lined up to
get water. When Nonoy turn
came, he took a long drink. How
cool and satisfying the water
tasted.
 THE ARTESIAN WELL
Answer the questions:
1. Where did Nonoy live?
2. What did he do every morning?
3. How long did it take him to get
water?
4. Where did he put the water?
5. What did the men do in the
barrio?
6. How did the barrio people feel
about it?
7. What would the well give them?
8. How long did the men finish the
work?
9. What did the barrio people do
when it was ready?
10. How did the water taste to
Nonoy?
FEEDING A BIG FAMILY
Aling Narda called her six children for
breakfast. She served them all the fried fish
and rice he cooked. When the children sat at
the table and began to eat, the food was
finished in a short time.
Mother, is there some more rice? asked
Pedro. He had eaten slowly and had taken
only a small amount of rice.
Mother brought the scorched rice from
the pot.
This is the only rice left, Pedro, she
said. Eat it.
But Mother, you will have none to eat,
Pedro said.
Mother could not speak. There was little
food to cook and she had six children. It was
hard to feed a big family.
 FEEDING A BIG FAMILY
A BIG FIRE A BIG FIRE
Answer the questions:
A big fire hit the Tondo area near Answer the questions:
the1. sea.
How Hundreds
many children did Aling
of houses were
1. What hit Tondo area?
burnedNarda
and have?
many families were left
2. What did the families who had no
2. What After
homeless. meal did the they
fire,eat?
the place
place to go do?
3. Howadid
became Pedro
big, eat his
open food?Only
space.
3. What did the burned areas
4. What
burned did Mother
woods, stonesbringandfortwisted
galvanized iron sheets were left. become?
Pedro?
Many of were
the families who 4. How did the galvanized iron
5. What served on thehad no
table?
place to much
go were sadly sheets look?
6. How rice did Pedrogrouped
get? 5. Had all of the families no place to
together. Theirlong
7. For how fewdidbelongings
they eat the were
piled near them. go?
food? 6. How many houses were burned?
NotWhy
8. long, after,
did the the Red
children finishCross
their
people arrived to help the fire victims. 7. Who arrived to help the fire
food at once? victims?
They brought canvas tents, clothing,
9. What
mats, food anddid medicines.
Aling Narda find about 8. What happened to many of the
feeding a big family? families?
10. Why did Pedro ask for more 9. Where did the fire in Tondo occur?
rice? 10. What were given to the fire
victims?
 A WAY TO HELP MOTHER
Ludy was playing with her friends Answer the questions:
in their front yard when she saw her 1.
mother coming from the market. She 2.
excused herself politely from her 3.
playmates and ran to meet her 4.
mother. She took the basket and
carried it to the house.
5.
Thank you, Ludy, her mother
said when they reached the house.
6.
You can go back to your friends and
play again.
No, Mother, Ludy answered. I 7.
have already told them, I am going to
help you prepare our food. 8.
9.
10.
A WAY TO HELP MOTHER
With whom was Ludy playing?
Where were they playing?
Whom did Lucy see coming?
What did Ludy do when she saw
her coming?
What did Ludy do upon meeting
her?
What did Ludys mother do
when they reached home?
Did her mother want her
continue playing?
Why did Ludy not go back to
play again?
Where did mother come from?
What kind of a child is Ludy?
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