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DEVELOPING
READING POWER
4

SKILL A
(Noting Details)
 PEPE AND THE GUAVAS
Pepe climbed the guava tree near
his house. It had many ripe fruits. He
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
branch break. He did not know it was 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 father’s farm in the barrio. Dan lived in
the town.
“Let’s ride on my horse,” Lito said.
“I don’t know how to ride a horse,” said
Dan.
“It’s easy! I’m 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 Baños, 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?
 ANA’S 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. “I’ll
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.
ANA’S PET
Answer the questions:
1. What dis Ana’s 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.
“What’s 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. It’s a sign that
your body is growing, too. Soon you’ll
be a big boy.
A SIGN OF GROWTH
Answer the questions:
1. When did the story happen?
2. What could Jun not do well?
3. What hurt his feet?
4. Who made Jun take off his
shoes?
5. What would Jun wear?
6. Why did his shoes become
tight?
7. What did Jun need in place of
his tight shoes?
8. What was happening to Jun?
9. What is the sign of growing
feet?
10.What will Jun soon become?
 HOW OUR FOREFATHERS KEEP
THEMSELVES CLEAN
Our forefathers were clean and
neat. They kept themselves clean by
bathing often and wearing clean
clothes.
To keep their black hair clean, they
used the suds of gugo bark and boiled
in water for their soap. Their hair
smelled sweet with their perfumed oil.
To keep their teeth even, they filed them
with iron or stones while they were
young. Their teeth looked red because
of the betelnut they chewed to preserve
them.
HOW OUR FOREFATHERS KEEP
THEMSELVES CLEAN
Answer the questions:
1. What is the story about?
2. What words describe our
forefathers?
3. How did they keep themselves
clean?
4. What was the color of their hair?
5. What did they use as soap to keep
their hair clean?
6. Did they use soap in those days?
7. What made their hair smell sweet?
8. What did they do with the gogo
bark?
9. How were their teeth kept even?
10. What made their teeth look ugly?
 THE FIRST CAIMITO HARVEST THE FIRST CAIMITO HARVEST
Doming’s father planted a caimito tree some Answer the questions:
years ago. Last October it began to bear its first 1. Who planted a caimito tree?
flowers. The fruits were very slow in growing.
2. When did he plant it?
Doming could hardly wait to see them ripen.
3. When did it bear its first
One day Doming saw a big, dark violet fruit.
flower?
“Father, Father!” he shouted. “There is a
4. How fast did the fruits grow?
ripe caimito now.”
5. What did Doming see one day?
Doming looked up at the other branches.
“Oh! There are some more. They are hidden
6. Whom did he call?
behind the leaves. Come, Father, let’s get them 7. What did he see on the other
all.” branches?
There were about twenty fruits which 8. Where were they hidden?
Doming’s father picked from the tee. They were 9. How many fruits did Doming’s
the first harvest. They were all sweet and father pick?
delicious. 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. Santos’s 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 children’s 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
Answer the questions:
1. How many children did Aling
Narda have?
2. What meal did they eat?
3. How did Pedro eat his food?
4. What did Mother bring for Pedro?
5. What were served on the table?
6. How much rice did Pedro get?
7. For how long did they eat the
food?
8. Why did the children finish their
food at once?
9. What did Aling Narda find about
feeding a big family?
10. Why did Pedro ask for more rice?
 A BIG FIRE
A big fire hit the Tondo area near the
sea. Hundreds of houses were burned
and many families were left homeless.
After the fire, the place became a big,
open space. Only burned woods, stones
and twisted galvanized iron sheets were
left.
Many of the families who had no place
to go were sadly grouped together. Their
few belongings were piled near them.
Not long, after, the Red Cross people
arrived to help the fire victims. They
brought canvas tents, clothing, mats,
food and medicines.
A BIG FIRE
Answer the questions:
1. What hit Tondo area?
2. What did the families who had no
place to go do?
3. What did the burned areas
become?
4. How did the galvanized iron sheets
look?
5. Had all of the families no place to
go?
6. How many houses were burned?
7. Who arrived to help the fire
victims?
8. What happened to many of the
families?
9. Where did the fire in Tondo occur?
10. What were given to the fire victims?
 A WAY TO HELP MOTHER
Ludy was playing with her friends in
their front yard when she saw her
mother coming from the market. She
excused herself politely from her
playmates and ran to meet her mother.
She took the basket and carried it to the
house.
“Thank you, Ludy,” her mother said
when they reached the house. “You can
go back to your friends and play again.”
“No, Mother,” Ludy answered. “I
have already told them, I am going to
help you prepare our food.”
A WAY TO HELP MOTHER
Answer the questions:
1. With whom was Ludy playing?
2. Where were they playing?
3. Whom did Lucy see coming?
4. What did Ludy do when she saw
her coming?
5. What did Ludy do upon meeting
her?
6. What did Ludy’s mother do when
they reached home?
7. Did her mother want her continue
playing?
8. Why did Ludy not go back to play
again?
9. Where did mother come from?
10. What kind of a child is Ludy?