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English
QUARTER 4 – MODULE 3:
Sorting and Classifying Familiar
Words into Basic Categories

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ENGLISH
QUARTER 4 – MODULE 3:
Sorting and Classifying Familiar
Words into Basic Categories
 What I Need to Know

This module is designed and written with you in mind.

It is developed to help you sort and classify familiar words
into basic categories (colors, shapes, foods, etc.).

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Identify basic categories of familiar words;
2. Sort/classify familiar words into basic categories; and
3. Write familiar words into their correct categories.

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 What I Know

A. Directions: Name the pictures and classify them

according to the categories given.

Fruits Animals Shapes

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B. What basic category: toys, colors, flowers,
vegetables can you give to the following groups?
Write your answers on the box provided above
each group of familiar words.

marble blue rose eggplant

yoyo red santan beans
balloon green daisy okra

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Lesson Sorting and Classifying
Title Familiar Words into Basic
Categories

What’s In

A. Directions: The following fruits are sold in the

market everyday. Give the most appropriate word
to describe each.

1 2 3

1. The first fruit, atis is ______________________.

2. The next fruit, orange tastes _________________.

3. The third fruit, mango has an ____________

shape.

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 Notes to the Parent
The parent reads the sentence and
shows the picture. She will ask the learner to
give a word that best describes the picture.

What’s New

Directions: The facilitator reads the story and asks the

questions that follow.
One Saturday morning, father and Arlene went to
the farm. Arlene was very happy while feeding the
chickens, ducks and pigs.
After feeding them, they went to the garden and
gathered okra, ampalaya, eggplant and stringbeans.
While Arlene was going around the farm, something
caught her attention for they were very beautiful and
colorful. She went near them and picked some roses,
sunflowers and gumamelas.

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1. What animals did Arlene feed?
a. chickens, ducks, pigs
b. chickens, ducks, horses
c. chickens, goats, pigs
d. ducks, horses, goats

2. What vegetables did they gather?

a. okra, ampalaya, eggplant and pechay
b. okra, ampalaya, pechay and stringbeans
c. okra, ampalaya, eggplant and stringbeans
d. okra, ampalaya, beans and squash

3. What flowers did Arlene pick?

a. daisies, santans, gumamelas
b. roses, sunflowers, gumamelas
c. roses, orchids, gumamelas
d. rosal, sunflowers, gumamelas

4. Chickens, ducks and pigs are classified as ___________.

a. plants
b. food
c. flowers
d. animals

5. How about okra, ampalaya, eggplant and stringbeans?

a. animals
b. flowers
c. fruits
d. vegetables

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 What is It
Sorting is grouping objects according to shapes, size,
color, texture, etc.
examples: red, green, blue - These are colors
small, medium, large - these are sizes
Classifying is naming the group of objects where they
belong.
examples: Fruits- mango, orange, apple
Transportation – bus, jeepney, airplane

What’s More
A. Directions: Match the group of words in column A to its
basic category in column B.
A B

1. pencil, eraser, paper A. months of the year

2. May, July, April
3. five, two, seven
4. Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday
5. bus, van, tricycle
B. transportation
C. things in school
D. numbers
E. days of the week

F. food

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B. Directions: Choose the correct category of the
following words inside the box.

animals trees members of the family

vegetables body parts fruits

1. ___________ 2. ____________ 3. ____________

hands bird cabbage
head cow ampalaya
nose goat pechay

4. ___________ 5. ____________
father narra
mother acacia
sister melina

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 What I Have Learned

1. How do you sort and classify things?

2. Give at least four categories of classifying things.

_________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

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 What I Can Do

A. Directions: Write the words under the correct

categories.

eyes book elephant

grapes shoulder cake bag

carabao strawberry ice cream

Body parts Sweets Animals

Fruits Things in school

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B. Directions: Draw the object under the correct heading
on the next page.

clock banana ten wheel

watermelon coins one yellow

Diamond orange(color) mango oblong

four circle violet

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round fruits shapes

numbers colors

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 Assessment
A. Directions: Encircle the letter of the correct category
in the following groups of words.
1. bicycle, motorcycle, jeep, van
A. Clothes
B. Fruits
C. Toys
D. Transportation
2. marble, balloon, doll, top
A. Animals
B. Numbers
C. Shapes
D. Toys
3. black, blue, green, red
A. Colors
B. Fruits
C. Food
D. Toys
4. cat, dog, horse, pig
A. Animals
B. Clothes
C. Family
D. Flowers
5. five, one, seven, three
A. Colors
B. Foods
C. Numbers
D. Toys

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B. Directions: Encircle the word that does not belong to
the category.
1. television, refrigerator, laptop, chair
2. spoon, bag, glass, plate
3. rose, mango, santan, orchid
4. slipper, pants, short, t-shirt
5. papaya, banana, beans, guava

Additional Activity
I. Directions: Choose the correct category of the given
groups of words inside the box.

Numbers Vegetables Fruits

Animals Shapes Members of the family

1. _____________ 4. ______________
sister chicken
brother cat
grandfather duck

2. ______________ 5. ______________
six tomato
eight eggplant
nine string beans

3. ______________
triangle
square
circle

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B. Directions: Supply another word that completes the
group of word.

1. chalk, , board, desk

2. elephant, monkey, , tiger

3. __________, chico, papaya, watermelon

4. doll, yoyo, lego,

5. pencil, , crayon, paper

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What I Know What's More Assessment
A. What I Know 1. C II. 1. Body parts 1. D II. 1.chair
2. A 2. Animals 2. D 2.bag
1. Shapes
3. D 3. Vegetables 3. A 3. mango
Triangle
4. E 4. Family 4. A 4. slipper
Square
Rectangle 5. A 5. trees 5. C 5. beans
2. Animals 6. What I Can Do
Dog Fruits Sweets Animals
What's In Grapes cake elephant
Pig
Possible Answers Strawberry ice carabao
cat 1. sweet/round/green
3. Fruits Cream
2.sweet/sour
Orange 3. oblong
Mango What’s New Body parts Things in
Apple School
1. a Eyes bag
B. 1. Toys 2. c Shoulder book
3. b
2. colors
4. d B. round fruits
3. flowers 5.d
4. vegetables
What I Have Learned
Clock banana
Coins watermelon
1. Answers may vary
Wheel mango
2. I sort things according to Shape numbers colors
color, size, shapes, etc. and Diamond ten yellow
classify them according to Oblong one orange
Circle four violet
their basic category
Additional Activities
1. Family
2. Numbers
3. Shapes
4. Animals
5. vegetables
II. Answers may vary
Answer Key
References
Curriculum Guide 2016 for Grade I
English 1 Activity Sheets, 2018 Edition

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