“The Sly Fox”

The fox is a wild animal that looks like a

dog. It has a pointed nose and ears, a bushy
tail and thick fur. The fox is said to be a very
clever animal in fooling others. The wolf is
a wild animal that looks like a dog too. It
has thick fur and pointed muzzle. Wolves
and foxes hunt other animals. Sometimes,
they end up hunting each other.
One night, a fox met a wolf in the
forest. The wolf was very hungry and in a
terrible mood. So the wolf said to the fox.
“Don’t move! I’m going to eat you
this minute.”
As he spoke, the wolf backed the fox
up against a tree. The fox realized she could
not run away.
 “I have to use my wits instead of my
legs,” she said to herself.
“I could have been a good dinner for
you last year. I was then very fat and plump.
But I had three babies then. Now I’m slim
and not delicious.”
“I don’t care if you are plump or not.
I don’t care how many babies you have. I’m
going to eat you right now!”
The wolf began closing in on the fox.
“Stop!, the fox shouted. “Look how
skinny I am. I ran off all my fat looking for
my babies. But I know a place where you
can find something good and fat.”
Wolf backed off and listened to Fox.
“There is a well near here. In the
bottom of it is a big round piece of meat.
You can get it instead of eating me. Shall we
go?”
The wolf trotted off after the fox,
making sure that she could not run away.
They came upon a well.
“See for yourself, what a fat juicy
piece of meat is at the bottom of this well. I
wanted to get it for my babies. But you can
have it.”
Inside the well was a delicious
looking yellow round piece of meat. Above
the well, the moon shone bright and clear.
The wolf leaned over the well wondering
how to get the piece of meat. The fox
jumped up quickly and pushed the wolf
down into the deep well.
“I’m a sly old mother Fox!” Fox said
to herself.
 Inside the well was a delicious
looking yellow round piece of meat. Above
the well, the moon shone bright and clear.
The wolf leaned over the well wondering
how to get the piece of meat. The fox
jumped up quickly and pushed the wolf
down into the deep well.
“I’m a sly old mother Fox!” Fox said
to herself.
Comprehension questions:
1. Who were the characters of the
story?
2. Where did the story happen?
3. What did the fox do to be not eaten
for dinner by the wolf?
4. Why did the wolf not eat the fox?
5. What was at the bottom of the well
that looked delicious and good?
Choose the letter of the word group that best
answers the question or completes the
sentence.
1. How does the story open?
a. It introduces the characters of the
story.
b. It gives background information on
the characters.
c. It tells where the story happened.
d. It started with dialogue between
the two characters.
2. What characters does the story have?
a. Two animal characters.
b. Two human characters.
c. An animal and a human character.
d. A moon and two animal characters.
 3. Which describes the setting of the
story?
a.A bright day in the forest

b.A dark night in the forest

c.A rainy afternoon in the forest
d.A full moon night in the forest.
4. Why did the wolf not eat the fox?
a.The wolf would eat the baby foxes
instead.
b.The fox offered him something good
and
fat.
c.The wolf took pity on the fox.
d.The fox was able to escape from the
wolf.
5. What could have happened to the wolf?
 a.He was able to get the piece of the
meat
at the bottom of the well.
b.He had a delicious dinner at the
bottom
of the well.
c.He and the fox became good friends.
d.He drowned in the well.

Aurea is in a hurry preparing to go to

school. She didn’t wake up early because
she watched her favorite late night show.
She opened her purse and said, “My
allowance is not enough for the remaining
three days before my next allowance” she
felt so worried. It is because she is fond of
buying bracelets and necklaces.
Questions:
1. Who is the main character of the
story?
2.Draw the appropriate facial
expression related to this line of Aurea
“My allowance is not enough for the
remaining three days before my next
allowance”.

A Letter Soup
By Pedro Pablo Sacristan
Once upon a time there was a very evil
and unpleasant crook who only ever thought
 about how to get money. Seeing anyone
happy bothered the crook enormously. What
he hated most was when people were polite
and courteous to each other, saying things
like please and thank you, and don't
mention it. It annoyed him even more if they
were smiling when they said these things.
The crook thought all those kinds of words
were a useless waste, and weren't good for
anything. So what he did was spend a lot
of time inventing a machine which could
steal words. With this machine, he planned
to steal 'please', 'thank you', 'don't mention
it', and similar words people used to be
polite. He was convinced that no one would
notice if those words were to suddenly
disappear. When he had stolen these words,
he intended to take them apart and sell the
letters to book publishers.
 After he started up his machine, people
would open their mouths, intending to say
kind and polite things, but nothing came out.
All those words ended up inside the big
machine. Just as the crook had hoped, in the
beginning nothing happened. It looked like
people really didn't need to be polite after
all. However, after a while, people started to
feel like they were always in a bad mood,
doing everything reluctantly, and feeling
like everyone else was being forever
demanding of them. So, within a few
days,everyone was angry and arguing over
the slightest little thing.
The crook was terribly happy with his
success, but he didn't count on a couple of
very special little girls. Those girls were
deaf, and had to communicate using sign
language. Now,because the machine
couldn't steal gestures, these girls continued
being kind and polite. Soon they realised
what had been happening to everyone else,
and they found out about the crook and his
wicked plan. 
The girls followed him to his hideout on the
top of a hill next to the sea. There they
found the enormous machine busy
separating all the words into letters. The
crook had gone to take a nap, so the girls
crept up to the machine and started being
polite and courteous to each other.
Try as it might, the contraption couldn't steal
those words, and it started to suffer a power
overload, which got more and more serious
as the girls went on communicating. Finally,
it exploded; sending all the letters it had
gathered flying into the sky. These letters
started coming down, like rain, and most
 ended up in the sea. After that, everyone
could be polite and thoughtful again. The
anger and the arguments stopped, proving
that good manners are very useful for
keeping people together in a spirit of
happiness.
Seeing all those letters fall into the sea gave
those two little girls an idea. A little while
later they opened a factory. Making
alphabetti spaghetti soup!
What was his plan?
What did he invent?Did his machine work?
What happened to the people?
Who were not affected by the machine?
Why they were not affected?
Where was hideout located?
What did the girls do to stop him?
 If you were the girls, would you have done
the same? Why?
THE FOX IN THE WELL
One day a fox fell into a well. He jumped
and jumped but he could not get out. The
well was too deep. Soon he began to feel
cold and hungry.
Suddenly there was a noise from above. A
goat had come to drink from the well. It
looked in and saw the fox. “Why, what
are you doing down there, Mr. Fox?”
asked the goat.
The fox was very cunning. Quickly, he
thought of a way to trick the goat. “Oh,
I’m drinking,” he said.
“Down there? But there’s water in the
bucket up here.”
 “Yes, I know,” said the fox. “But the
water down here is much sweeter.
Why don’t you come down and taste it for
yourself?”
“I think I will do that.” And the silly
animal jumped into the well.
At once the fox leapt on to the goat’s
back. And from there he soon jumped out
of the well.
“Hey! Where are you going?” cried the
goat. “What about me? How am I going
to get out of here?”
“Ah-ha, you silly goat,” laughed the fox.
“Don’t you think you should have
thought of that before you jumped in?”
And still laughing to himself he ran off,
leaving the poor goat in the well.
Base from the story read, answer the
following questions.
• Who was trapped in the well?
• Who came passing one day?
• What convinced the goat to go down
the well?
• How did the fox get out of the well?
• What is the moral of the story?
• The Queue
• by Jean Paul V. Banay
It was 9:30 in the morning at Labuin
Elementary School. It was already
break time for Grade V-Coral.
Children line up in a queue to go the
canteen to have their recess.
At the canteen, the children lined up in
a queue waiting for their turn to buy
 their food. Luke, a Grade 3 pupil
rushed in front of the queue and
shouted at the canteen manager for
food.
Calmly, the canteen manager said to
Luke “Luke, it is not nice to shout at
people, especially when you’re at the
canteen. And we should observe the
rules inside the canteen. Look at these
children, they line up in a queue and
wait for their turn. You should do the
same.” said the canteen manager.
After that day, Luke lined up in the
queue and asked politely for food.
Identify the element of the literary text
from the story you just read. Choose
your answer from the boxes below.
Character setting conflict
Plot theme
1. It was 9:30 in the
morning at Labuin
Elementary School.

2. Luke, a Grade 3
pupil
3. Luke rushed in
front of the queue
4. The canteen
manager told Luke
about the rules inside
the canteen.

5. Following rules
inside the canteen is
the right thing to do.
A Trip to Town
by Jean Paul V. Banay
One Saturday morning, Marissa and
her mother went to town to buy supplies
for the household.
They first stopped at the repairman’s
shop to follow up the repair of their
electric fan. The repairman said they
could pick it up on Monday.
Afterwards, they went to the supermarket
to buy groceries. They bought meatballs,
tomato sauce, and pasta. Mother will be
cooking spaghetti that night. They also
bought cooking oil, soy sauce, banana
catsup, vinegar, salt and pepper.
They also purchased some bathing
supplies, like bath soap, shampoo,
conditioner, and lotion. At the cleaning
supplies section, they bought detergent
soap, fabric conditioner, and
dishwashing paste.
After paying for the groceries, they went
to a pizza house. Marissa ate one-fourth
of the pizza.
On their way home, they stopped over
the local bakery to buy doughnuts and
cupcakes as take home for Marissa’s
father and siblings.
It was a nice trip to town.
Identify the compound words used the
story. Classify and write them in the
table below.
One-word Two-word Hyphenated
compound compound compound