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English – Grade 6
Quarter 3 – Module 6: Making Connections between Information Viewed and
Personal Experiences (Environment)
First Edition, 2020

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 English 6
Quarter 3
Self-Learning Module 6
Making Connections between
Information Viewed and Personal
Experiences (Environment)

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Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English 6 Self-Learning Module on Making Connections

between Information Viewed and Personal Experiences (Environment)!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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 For the Learner:

Welcome to the English Self-Learning Module on Making Connections between

Information Viewed and Personal Experiences (Environment).

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.

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 EXPECTATIONS

This is your self- instructional learner module in English 6. All the activities
provided in this lesson will help you learn and understand: Making
Connections between Information Viewed and Personal Experiences
(Environment)

PRETEST

Direction: Write Yes if the statement is correct; otherwise, you write No.

________ 1. Prior knowledge has nothing to do with the learners’

comprehension.
________ 2. Personal experiences has no connection to learning.
________ 3. Making connections will help the readers keep in tract of
the ideas leading to understanding.
________ 4. Making connections make the readers forget everything
they have read.
________ 5. Personal experiences has a way of helping the readers to
connect to what was read.

RECAP

Reading is merely useless when a reader doesn’t understand the text

being read. Hence comprehension is very important since it’s a way of
connecting the readers to the text. Various ways of acquiring it could be done
through the help of a dictionary, searching through the web or using root
word analysis. Strategies like these very useful especially to the learners who
have just started understanding the meaning of the words.

Yet, there is another approach which will definitely enliven what has
already stored in your memory or your prior knowledge, in which you relate
yourself to the text being presented or viewed. This approach will help the
learners refrain from having a burden in understanding the meaning of the
text. This only requires your willingness to think deeply and activate what has

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stored already in your mind. Your prior knowledge, concept, belief and
reactions are indeed essential.

Let’s start!

LESSON

What do you feel when you see a dirty environment? A polluted water?
Air?a denuded land perhaps?

Each one of us has a responsibility in taking care of our environment.

Our environment is already in dangered of dying because of our doings.
Barren mountains are highly visible, rampant garbages are seen everywhere,
polluted air makes the people sick and many more. Immediate response is
what our environment need.

Let’s read this conversation:

One fine morning, father Joseph and son Steve have a walk along the
beach. Both are enjoying the sea breeze and the scenery as well.

Joseph: Do you know that the sea we walked along is very rich in narural
resources?

Steve: Wondering, what made this sea water rich father?

Joseph: The seafoods that we placed on our table all came from the sea.

Steve: Oh, that sounds amazing! This sea produces so many fish, crabs,
prawns and many more?

Joseph: Yes son, this seawater doesn’t just give us the different seafoods we
eat but also some minerals like magnesium and sodium chloride too.
But it is slowly dying because of the people who abused its beauty by
throwing garbage in it.

Steve: Sad to hear that father. How could these garbage constitute to the
killing of the seawater?.

Joseph: These garbages pollute the water that led to the dying of sea
creatures.

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Steve: We better tell these people to help clean their surroundings and
dispose their garbage properly. So, the next generation will see and
experience the beauty of the sea like me.

Complete the statements:

 This scenario reminds me of _______________________________________.

 I felt ______________________________________________________________.
 I can relate to _____________________________________________________.
 Because __________________________________________________________.
 Their conversation is similar to ____________________________________.
That ____________________________________________________________________.

By filling in the needed statements made the readers link with their
personal experiences to the given information.

Making Connections is a critical reading comprehension strategy that

help us makes meaning on what we are reading. It links what the students
read to what they already know. This strategy helps the learners to
comprehend by activating their prior knowledge. Since you can get this out
from your personal experience thus you’ll get more involved on the text
that generally full understanding.

Guided Practice
Let’s try a few items as a practice exercise. Make connections using the
following information.

1. We were trained to clean our room before leaving.

This reminds you the importance of cleaning.

2. Father never allowed us to burn our plastic garbage.

It tell us the negative effect of burning plastic garbage to the

environment.

3. We were forbidden to throw our trash anywhere.

It reminds us to keep our surroundings clean.

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 4. In our classroom, all of us are encouraged to place our garbage in a
properly labelled garbage can . ( biodegradable , non-biodegradable)

It tells you to dispose your garbage properly.

5. Signs of “no loitering” are posted in our municipality.

It gives warning to everyone to throw their garbage in the

designated trash bins.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Direction: Put a / if the statement tells about taking care of the environment
and X if otherwise.

______1. Fishermen are using dynamite in catching fish to ensure their

abundant catch.
______2. Mang Jose never use pesticides to his plants. He wanted to
make sure that the air is free of radicals from the pesticides.
______3. Whenever the farmers see a tree that is dying, automatically
they planted new one.
______4. Mang Cardo, the driver, sees to it that his jeepney is free of
dark smoke .
______5. The picnic goers brought many foods to the beach and left their
garbage everywhere.

Activity 2

Directions: Read the short story given below and try to connect it with your
personal experience by telling something about it.

Story
Poblacion Mahaplag is a small town located in Leyte. Though small, yet
its fame reached the bigger towns particular in Leyte. It is famous
because of its cleanest feature. Everyone in the community helps each
other in maintaining the cleanliness. Their Saturdays and Sundays
were never a lazy moment. They went to the street and do their share
of cleaning. Children of your age joined the cleaning too. After cleaning
they planted fruit bearing tress like star apple, santol, mango and
guavas in the vacant lot. That made it a floodless and garbage free place.

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 Life

I can relate to this information because _____________________________

____________________________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

Activity 3

Directions: Saving our environment is very necessary. It requires us to be fully

aware of our responsibilities to make this a better place to live in. As a learner
try to connect on what you have learned today by completing the statements
below.

1. Garbage will poison the water creatures so,

__________________________________________________________________
2. We stop scattering our plastic bottles anywhere because
__________________________________________________________________
3. Dirty environment will ___________________________________________.

4. It is important to keep our environment clean because

_________________________________________________________________.
5. Healthy environment is __________________________________________.

WRAP-UP

Were you able to learn how to make connections between information

and personal experience? Now you answer this cloze procedure test.

Making Connections is a _____________________ strategy that makes use

of your ______________________ and _________________________ to understand
the text or the information.

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 VALUING

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

As a Grade 6 learner, how can you contribute the cleanliness of your
surroundings? Give your ways on how you can help the cleanliness in your
place.
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

POSTTEST

Directions: Read the selection and make connections between the information
and personal experience.

Gold in Garbage
( Ann Corvera)

Avella Lipata used to make the rounds of Makati hotels and offices in her
truck to collect waste materials. Back at the warehouse of her company, she and
ten other workers carfully sorted items that would not be sent to dumpsites
instead sold at competitive prices.
When her story was featured as an exceptional solid waste management
initiative , it caught the attention of the Solid Waste Management Program.
Any much association might have much to gain from implementing a solid
waste management program. For a busy commercial district, setting up an
organized waste collection and disposal system was not only cost -efficient , but
also helped maintain the malls’ standards as premier lifestyle centers. It was an
association that initiated the waste collection and recycling program in 1996.
By the time the group contacted Avella’s company 10 years later, it had
reduced the amount of garbage hauled from the malls from 20 trucks to seven
trucks everyday. Through further segregation , two truckloads of collected
materials can still be recovered and sold.

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Answer the following questions. Encircle the letter of your choice.

1. What tells you about the selection?

A. Garbage is dirty and shouldn’t be touched.
B. Garbage must be recycled, and those for sale must be sold.
C. Garbage should be dumped right away without segregation.
D. Garbage must be kept inside your home and be rotten.

2. How are you going to make the garbage useful?

A. Separate the recyclable one and sell it to earn money and dump the
remaining useless garbage.
B. Burn the plastic bottles.
C. Throw it in the river.
D. Sell all your garbage to your neighbor.

3. How can you relate the life of Avilla Lipata?

A. I wouldn’t want to be like her.
B. I only like her because she became famous.
C. I also recycle our garbage at home.
D. I tell my mother to do the task.

4. How did you feel upon reading the text?

A. I felt discouraged.
B. I felt unhappy.
C. I felt confused.
D. I felt proud.

5. What is the purpose of this text?

A. To inform the readers that garbage could be useful if you have patience
of recycling it.
B. To tell the readers that garbage is useless.
C. To show the readers that nothing can be gained from garbage.
D. To inform the readers that garbage is easy to dump.

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English Textbook
Teacher made story
References
Pre-test Activities Post Test
1. No 1.
2. No 1. X 1. B
3. Yes 2. / 2. A
4. No 3. / 3. C
5. Yes 4. / 4. D
5. X 5. A
2. Answers may vary
3. Answers may vary
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