Cleaning Yourself

Luz said,
“ I am clean and
pretty.
I wash my face.
I put on a clean dress.
I trim my nails.
I comb my hair.
Look at me.
Am I not pretty?”

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1. Who is talking?
A.Mother B. Luz C. A boy

2. What does she do with her face?

 A. She washes it.
B. She combs it.
C. She cuts it.

3. What does she do with her nails?

A. She cleans them.
B. She trims them.
C.She washes them.

4.What does she do with her hair?

A. She cleans it.
B. She combs it.
C. She washes it.

5.What does she say?

A. “I am clean and pretty.”
B. “I am big and strong.”
C. “I am strong and healthy.”

Flowers
The sampaguita is a
 flower.
It is white and it is
smells sweet.
The sampaguita is our
national flower.
The gumamela is a
flower too.
It does not smell sweet.
Some gumamela
flowers are red.
Some are pink and some are
white.
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1. Which is our national flower?

A.Sampaguita
B. Gumamela
C. Rose
2. How does the sampaguita smell?
A. Bad
 B. Sweet
C. No smell

3.Which flower does not smell sweet?

A. Camia
B. Sampaguita
C. Gumamela

4. Which is not a flower?

A. Butterfly
B. Gumamela
C. Sampaguita

5.Is there a white gumamela?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Did not say

Our School
Our school is big.
It is beautiful.
 We have a flag in
front of our school.
We have a garden in
our school, too.
Our school is clean.
We help clean our
school.

1.What does the story tell about?

A. House
B. School
C.Garden

2.Which word tells about the school?

A. Small
B. Dirty
C. Beautiful
3.What do we do to make our school clean?
A. Play inside
B. Help clean
C. Put paint

4.What do we have in front of our school?

A. flag
B. house
C. store

5. What else has our school?

A. garden
B. flowers
C. grass

Shellfish
“Mother, what’s this?”
Sherbert asked showing a
shell she found on the
beach. “That is an empty
home of a small animal
called shellfish. Shellfish
has soft body so it needs
hard shell to protect it
from starfish, crabs, fish
or even birds.
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1. Who found a shell?
A. Mother
B. Sherbet
C. Fisherman

2.Where did she find the shell?

A. On the beach
B. In the sea
C. In the yard

3.What animal lived in the shell?

A. Fish B. Crab C.Hairy

4.What kind of body does a shellfish have?

A. Hard
B. Soft
 C. Hairy

5.What sea animal eats shellfish?

A. Fish
B. Dog
C. Cat

Guess
“Can you guess who I
am?asked Tito.
“ I teach children.
I teach them to read and
write.
I teach them to be good.
 I teach them how to
Be polite and helpful.”
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1. Who is talking in the story?
A.Tito
B. Brother
C.Father

2. What did he ask the other children to guess?

A. What he is
B. Where he is
C. Who he is

3. What does a teacher teach in school?

A. Jump and run
B. Sleep and play
C. Read and write

4.What else does she teach in school?

A. How to eat
B. How to cross the street
C. How to be good

5.What else does she teach the children?

A. To watch TV
B. To be polite and helpful
C. To go home
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The Rain
It is raining.
“ It is raining hard,” said
Lani.
The rain is falling on the
houses
The rain is falling on
the trees.
There is water on the
streets.
“I will not go to school
today,”said Tita.
“ I might catch cold,”
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1. Who will not go to school?

A. Tita B. Lani C. A girl

2. Why will she not go to school?

A. It is cold. B. It is raining. C. It is warm.

3.What filled the streets with water?

A. Wind B. Clouds C. Rain

4. Where is the rain falling?

A. On houses and trees
B. In the classroom
C. In the garden

5 Why will Tita not go to school?

A. She may catch cold.
B. She has no umbrella.
C. She will play.

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 Flying Kites

“Let us fly our kites,”said Celo.

“It is good to fly kites now.
The wind will help us fly our
kites.
The boys made their kites fly.
They had blue kites, red kites,
greenkites, and yellow kites.
Their kites went up, up in the
sky.
They looked like birds up in the
sky.
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1. Who asked the boys to fly kites?

A. Celo B. Celso C. Cenon
2. What helped them fly the kites?
A. Wind B. Rain C. Clouds

3. What are the colors of the kites?

A. White, black, orange
B. Green, white, yellow
C. Blue, red, green, yellow

4. Where did the kites fly?

A. Up in the sky
B. Up on the trees
C. Up on the houses

5. What did the kites look like?

A. Birds
B. Clouds
C. Sheep

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Busy Children
It was Saturday.
“Let us clean the house,”
said Gloria.
“I will clean the yard,”said
Nilo.
“ I will pull out the grass.
I will sweep the yard.
I will burn the dry leaves.”
“I will water the plants,
said Lina.
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1. What day was it?
A. Monday B. Saturday C. Friday

2. Who asked that they clean the house?

A.Nilo B. Mother C. Gloria

3.What will Nilo do?

 A. He will clean the garden.
B. He will help clean the house.
C. He will clean the yard.

4.What will Nilo do with the grass?

A. Water them
B. Plant them
C. Pull them out

5. Who will water the plants?

A. Lina
B. Nilo
C. Gloria

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HOW TO BE BIG AND STRONG

Berto is big and strong.

He eats good breakfast
before he goes to
school.
He drinks milk.
He eats vegetables, too
He plays in the yard.
These things help Berto
become big and strong.

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1. Who is the boy in the story?
A. Tito B. Berto C. Lito

2.Which one tells about him?

A. He is big and strong.
B. He is small and thin.
C. He is lazy.

3. What does Berto eat before he goes to

school?
A. A good dinner
B. A good breakfast
 C. A good supper

4. What other things make Berto big and

strong?
A. Milk and vegetables
B. Coffee and candy
C. Milk and coffee

5. Where does Berto play?

A. In the house
B. In the yard
C. Under the sun

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The Ugly Duckling

Mother Duck sat on her eggs to
hatch.
One morning, the eggs began to
crack.
Five pretty chicks came out of
their shells.
But one egg had not hatched.
So Mother Duck sat down to
wait.
Then the egg finally cracked.
Out came a chick with ugly
feathers.
That chick was not a duckling.
It was a beautiful swan when it
grew up.

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1. What did Mother Duck do?

A.Sat on her eggs
B. Swam in the pond
C.Played with her chicks

2.Why did Mother Duck sit on her eggs?

A. To hide them
B. To crack them
C. To hatch them
3.How many eggs were hatched first?
A. four B. five C. six

4.What kind of chick came out last?

A.Beautiful duckling
 B. Big Duckling
C.Ugly Duckling

5.When it grew up, the ugly duckling was

actually a______________.
A.Mother hen
B. Wild turkey
C.Beautiful swan

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Our Friends
I love to see the birds
fly.
I love to hear their pretty
songs.
Birds are our friends.
They eat harmful insects
on our plants.
They are very pretty.
They make us happy.
We must be kind to birds.

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1. What do we love to see?
A. Birds B. chickens C. Geese
2.What do birds do?
A. They talk.
B. They fly.
C. They swim.
3.What do we love to hear?
A. Birds’ song
B. Birds’ talk
C. Birds’ call
4.What do birds do for us?
A. They make us sad.
B. They make us happy.
C. They make us angry.
5.How do birds help us?
A. They eat sweet fruits.
B. They eat harmful insects.
C. They eat green plants.

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Helping Our Countrymen

“Let us go to Heng’s store,”
said Cora.
“I will buy a pencil”.
“Heng is a Chinese.
Aling Maria is a Filipino.
We should buy from Filipino
stores.
We should help Filipino
sellers”,Delia said.

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1.What did Cora want to buy?
A. Book B. Pencil C. A bag
2.Where would she buy a pencil?
A. At Heng’s store
B. At the market
C. At Aling Maria’s store
3.Who wanted to buy at Aling Maria’s store?
A. Cora B. The Children C. Delia
4.Where should we buy the things we need.
A. From Chinese stores
B. From Filipino stores
C. From any store
5.Whom should we help?
 A. Chinese sellers
B. Filipino sellers
C. Old sellers

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Be Kind
Tito and Belen were going
home.
Tito saw a nest.
It has three little birds.
I will take the birds home,”
said Tito.
“No, Tito,” said Belen.
“For sure, the mother bird
will look for her baby birds.
Do not take them away.”
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1. What did Tito see?
A. A hen’s nest
B. A bird’s nest
C.A duck’s nest
2. How many little birds were there?
A. four B. Three C. Two
3.What did Tito want to do?
A. Take the birds home.
B. Sell the birds.
C. Cook the birds.
4.Who did not want Tito to take the birds home?
A. Mother B. Brother C. Belen
5. Who would look for the birds?
A. The Mother bird
B. Tito’s Mother
 C.Tito’s Sister

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Honest Ben
Ben was on his way to school.
While walking, he found a
ten-peso bill.
He went to his teacher’s
room.
“Good morning, Miss
Reyes,” said Ben.
“I found this on the street.”
He gave the ten -peso bill to
his teacher.
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1. Where was Ben going?
A.To school
B. To church
C.To the market

2.What did he find?

A. A five-centavo coin
B.A ten-peso coin
C. A ten- peso bill

3.Where did Ben find it?

A. On the street
B. In the playground
C. In the classroom

4.To whom did he give the money?

A. To his Mother
B. To his sister
C. To his teacher

5.Which word tells about Ben?

A.Polite B. Honest C. Kind

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 A wish

I wish I were a
farmer
A farmer good and
wise,
I want to help my
countrymen
By growing lots of
rice.
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1. What is the title of the poem?
A. A Farmer
 B. A Wish
C.A Seller
2.What does the one talking in the poem
want to be?
A. A farmer
B. A policeman
C.A seller
3.Who does he want to help?
A.People in his town
B. People in his school
C.People in his country
4.What does he want to grow?
A. Lots of rice
B. Lots of corn
C. Lots of vegetables

5.What kind of a farmer does he want to

be?
A. A lazy one
B. A big one
C. Good and wish

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Vegetables
“Look, Father,”shouted
 Leon.
“Our beans have fruits.
Our patola plants have
fruits, too.”
“Let us pick some of
them,”Father said.
“We shall sell them in the
market.
Mother will cook some, too.”
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1.Who saw the fruits of the beans and the
patola?
A. Leon B. Father C. Mother
2.What will they do with the fruits?
A. They will eat all of them
B. They will sell some and eat some.
 C. They will give them away.

3.What will Mother do with some of the fruits?

A. Give them away
B. Cook them
C. Throw them away

4.What does Father want to do?

A. He wants to water the vegetables.
B. Cook them
C. Throw them away
5.Where will Father take the vegetables?
A. To the store
B. To the kitchen
C. To the market

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Title of the Story Date Signature

1.Cleaning Yourself
2.Flowers
3.Our School
4.Shellfish
5.Guess
6.The Rain
7.Flying Kites
8.Busy Children
9.How to be Big and Strong
10.The Ugly Duckling
11. Our Friends
12. Helping Our Countrymen
13. Be Kind
14. Honest Ben
15. A Wish
16. Vegetables

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