Flowers

The sampaguita is a flower. It is white and it

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.
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. Sampaguita
c. Gumamela
5. Is there a white gumamela?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Did not mention
 Our School
Our school is big. It is beautiful. We have 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?” Sherbet 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.
1. Who found a shell?
a. Mother
b. Sherbet
c. Fisherman
2. Where did she find 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. Shellfish
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.”
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 did 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 children?
a. To watch TV
b. To be polite and helpful
c. To go home

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.
1. What day was it?
a. Monday
b. Saturday
c. Friday
2. Who asked that they will 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

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.”
1. Who will not go to school?
a. Tita
b. Lani
c. A girl
2. Why will she not go t 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 the 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.

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, green kites, and yellow kites. Their kites went
up, up in the sky. They looked like birds up in the
sky.
 1. Who asked the boys to fly kites?
a. Celo
b. Celso
c. Cenon
2. What helped them to fly their kites?
a. Wind
b. Rain
c. Clouds
3. What are the colors of their 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 in the houses
5. What did the kites look like?
a. Birds
b. Clouds
c. Sheeps

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.
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 eats before he goes to school?
a. A good dinner
b. A good breakfast
c. A good supper
4. What other things makes 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

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 to wait. Then the egg finally cracked. Out
came a chick with ugly feathers. That chick was not a
duck. It was a beautiful swan when it grew up.
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

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.
1. What do we love to see?
a. Birds
b. Chicken
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.

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.”
1. Who saw the fruits of the beans and
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. He wants to pick some of the fruits.
c. He wants to eat the vegetables.
5. Where will Father take the vegetables?
a. To the store
b. To the kitchen
c. To the market
 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.
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 a Chinese stores
b. From a Filipino stores
c. From any stores
5. Whom should we help?
a. Chinese sellers
b. Filipino sellers
c. Old sellers
 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.”
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

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.
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

A Wish
I wish I were a farmer
A farmer good and wise,
I want to help my
countrymen
By growing heaps of
rice.
1. What is the poem all about?
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 farmer does he want to be?
a. A lazy one
b. A big one
c. Good and wise
 Clean-Up Week
Keep your home and yard
clean. Dust and wipe all
your things. Throw your
thrash in garbage cans. And
the love will surely win.
1. What is the celebration for the week
called?
a. Clean-Up Week
b. Cleaning Week
c. Parents’ Week
2. What should we keep clean?
a. Our neighbor’s things
b. Our home and yard
c. Our garbage can
3. What should we do with our trash?
a. Put them in garbage cans.
 b. Throw them on the streets.
c. Throw them into canals.
4. What should we do every day?
a. Clean all around
b. Play all around
c. Have fun all around
5. What do we win if we are clean
a. Neighbors
b. Prize
c. Love

A Prayer

I pray to God before I go to

sleep. I pray to God when I
awake. Thank you, God, for my
parents. Thank you, God, for
my brothers and sisters. Thank
you, God, for the food I eat.
Thank you, God, for my good
health.
1. What have you just read?
a. a letter
b. a prayer
c. a wish
2. When does the child pray?
a. Before eating
b. Before going to school
c. Before going to bed and after
waking up
3. To whom does he pray?
a. To mother
b. To father
c. To God
4. What does he thanked God for?
a. For his toys and books
b. For his parents, food and good
health
c. For his home and pets
5. What should you remember to do every
day?
a. Play
b. Pray
c. Eat

A Good Buyer

Mother told Nena to go to the

store. She told her to buy bread
and tomatoes. Nena went to the
store. She bought six big
tomatoes and a loaf of bread.
 The loaf was soft and fresh.
Nena was a good buyer.
1. Where did Mother ask Nena to go?
a. To school
b. To the market
c. To the store
2. What did Nena buy?
a. Milk and eggs
b. Tomatoes and bread
c. Bread and butter
3. What kind of tomatoes did Nena buy?
a. Big ones
b. Soft ones
c. Green ones
4. What kind of bread did Nena buy?
a. Hard and big
b. Sweet but small
c. Soft and fresh
5. What kind of a buyer was Nena?
a. She was a good buyer.
b. She did not know how to buy
things.
c. She did not know how to count
money.
 A Flower Garden
Cora has a beautiful flower
garden. There are many plants
in her garden. There are big
plants. There are small plants.
Many plants have flowers. The
flowers have pretty colors.
Many flowers smell sweet.
1. What does Cora have?
a. A fountain
b. Fruit trees
c. A flower garden
2. What kind of plants are in the garden.
 a. Big trees and small trees
b. Big plants and small plants
c. Grass and trees
3. What do plants have?
a. Insects
b. Flowers
c. Fruits
4. What do flowers have?
a. Pretty colors
b. Big petals
c. Small petals
5. What can you tell about many of the
flowers?
a. They smell sweet.
b. They are small.
c. They have pretty colors.