READING WORKSHEET

READING WORKSHEET
TARGET
Reading is vital! It is the process of gathering ideas

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and thoughts by looking through written symbols LEARNERS:
comprehensively. Reading is classified as oral and
silent. It is one of the receptive skills and thus expand GRADE
knowledge.

OBJECTIVES
At the end of every activity, the students will be able to:

a. match difficult words found in text with its synonym and antonym;
b. read text and answer text-based questions;
c. read literature and answer literary-based questions and;
d. read and arrange sentences logically.

MATCH ME IF YOU CAN

AIMS ✓ To develop students word recognition (synonym-
antonym) through card games
✓ To expand students’ vocabulary

✓ match difficult words found in text with its OBJECTIVE

synonym and antonym

SET A SET B
DIRECTIONS: Match difficult words found DIRECTIONS: Match difficult words found
in text with its synonym. in text with its antonym.

SPECTACULAR NO WIN SPECTACULAR NO WIN

IMPOSSIBLE ABOLISH IMPOSSIBLE ABOLISH

PERSUASION DEMORALIZED PERSUASION DEMORALIZED

SCRAPPED FRAIL SCRAPPED FRAIL

DAUNTED STRONG WILLED DAUNTED STRONG WILLED

FLIMSY REAL FLIMSY REAL

INDOMITABLE ARRESTING INDOMITABLE ARRESTING

TANGIBLE URGING TANGIBLE URGING

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 QUESTION CHAINS
AIMS ✓ To boost students’ reading comprehension
through asking text-based questions

OBJECTIVE ✓ read text and answer text-based questions

TEXT-BASED QUESTIONS:
1. When was the story happened?
2. Who are the characters of the story?
3. What was the vision of John Roebling?
4. Who was the partner of John Roebling in the materialization of the bridge?
5. What factor drives John Roebling to build the Brooklyn Bridge?
6. What did Roebling do despite the negative projection to his dream bridge?
7. What happened to the project when Roebling died?
8. Did the negative comments of the people stop the construction of the bridge?
9. What is the central theme of the story?
10. What is the moral lesson of the story? How will you relate persistence to achieve
success in life?

LITERATURE POWER
AIMS ✓ To stir students’ reading creativity through inducing
literature

OBJECTIVE ✓ read literature and answer literary-based questions

Directions: Read each of the following short passages

carefully and comprehensively. Encircle the correct answer.

When the world looks hopeless,

And life is not fair,
Throw back your shoulders
And do not despair

1. The expression “throw back your shoulders” means ________.

A. exercise your shoulders
B. forget your responsibilities
C. be confident and brave
D. show your feelings
2. The passage appeals more to the sense of________.
A. feeling
B. sight
C. sound
D. taste
3. Most probably, the writer’s purpose in the passage is to ________.
A. express a feeling
B. give an advice
C. reveal the truth
D. win other’s approval

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 LOGICAL
ORGANIZATION

AIM ✓ To boost students’ logical

comprehension

OBJECTIVE ✓ read and arrange sentences logically

______Let’s ask help from other students to repair the existing damage.
______Finally, encourage all to maintain cleanliness and beauty of our
surroundings.
______We can restore the beauty of this wall.
______First, let’s raise funds for the repair.

______This spot, which lies in New York Harbor, was the first American
soil seen or touched by many immigrants
______Between its opening in 1892 and its closing in 1954, about two
thirds of all immigrants were detained there before taking up their
new lives in the United States
______Ellis island has reopened for business, but now the customers are
tourists
______Though other places also served as ports of entry for foreigners,
none has the symbolic power of Ellis island.

______Rodrigo Roa Duterte was elected as a president of Philippine Republic.

______Many believes based on surveys that he is really an ideal president
______He signed and approved laws for the betterment of the Filipinos.
______Such, his ultimate goal is the development of the country.

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 From: “Courage” by Anne Sexton
If you have endured a great despair,
Then you did it alone
Getting a transfusion from a fire
Picking the scabs off your heart
Then wringing it out like a sock

4. The feeling that the writer intends us to have toward life is __

A. contentment
B. courage
C. fear
D. hopelessness
5. The word in the poem that gives hint to the mood evokes ____
A. aspired
B. sail
C. sink
D. succeed
6. The last two lines of the poem express
A. arrogance
B. courage
C. optimism
D. warning
7. The figure of speech used in the poem is
A. alliteration
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. simile

An excerpt from: Rabbi Ben Ezra

By: Robert Browning
Then, welcome each rebuff,
That turns earth smoothness rough,
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!
Be our joys three parts pain!
Strive, and hold cheap the strain;
Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe

8. The word in the poem which is the opposite of acceptance is ____

A. bids
B. joys
C. pangs
D. rebuff
9. Line nos. 5 and 6 appeal more to the sense of
A. feeling
B. sight
C. taste
D. touch
10. The figure of speech used in the poem is
A. alliteration
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. simile