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UNIFIED SUPPLEMENTARY LEARNING MATERIALS

Department of Education
NATIONAL
Grade 2 CAPITAL REGION
LEARNING AREA
Misamis Street, Bago-Bantay, Quezon City
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UNIFIED SUPPLEMENTARY LEARNING MATERIALS
(USLeM)

ENGLISH 2
DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT TEAM:

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HOW TO USE THE SLeM?

Before you start answering the USLeM, I want you to
set aside other tasks that will disturb you while enjoying
the lessons. Read the simple instructions below to
successfully enjoy the objectives of this kit.

1. Follow carefully all the contents and instructions

indicated in every page of this USLeM.
2. Write on your notebook or any writing pad the
concepts about the lessons. Writing enhances
learning, that is important to develop and keep in
mind.
3. Perform all the provided activities in the USLeM.
4. Let your facilitator/guardian assess your answers.
5. Analyze conceptually the post-test and apply what
you have learned.
6. Enjoy studying.

EXPECTATION:
This USLeM will help you to retell/reenact events from
a story.

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PRE-TEST
DIRECTIONS: Read carefully the story of The Life Cycle
of Betty. Arrange the pictures below the story in the
correct sequence by writing number 1-4 in the box.
The Life Cycle of Betty

A butterfly’s life has four stages. Let us know how

Betty was born.
Mother butterfly lays eggs on the
top of the leaf. Some of the eggs are
round or oval. One of the eggs is
Betty. This is the first stage of her life.
She starts as a very small egg. Her
shape will depend on the type of her
Mother butterfly. She is usually resting
on a leaf. So, do not pull a leaf off.
The second stage of Betty’s life is when the egg
becomes a larvae. She becomes a caterpillar. Betty
caterpillar mostly eats all day long so she can grow fast.
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Her food is the leaf where she was born. She does not stay
very long in this stage.
Pupa is the third stage of Betty’s life cycle. It is
the stage where Betty caterpillar reaches full growth and
forms into pupa. It looks like she is resting but there is a
rapid action to becoming a butterfly. This transformation is
called metamorphosis where the beautiful parts of her will
appear.
Finally, the fourth stage is when Betty transforms into
an alluring butterfly. Her attractive wings start to flap. She
flies over the flowers.

Source: https://publicdomainvectors.org/
https://unsplash.com/s/photos/pupa

LOOKING BACK
DIRECTIONS: Look at the pictures. Memorize as many
pictures as you can at the count of 10. After the count of
10 stop looking at the pictures. Tell what pictures you
remembered.
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BRIEF INTRODUCTION
What is Retelling?
It is a tool to identify if the students can comprehend
and recognize a specific story. During retelling, the
students accumulate the information and the events of
the story.

How do we retell the events from the story?

If you can retell the story, you recall and gather
events and information from the content you read.

Take note:

 Read carefully and focus on the story

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 Take note of the characters, the events and
important information of the story
 Recall the events and arrange them according to
the flow of the story

ACTIVITY 1
Ask: Do you have brothers/sisters?
How many are your siblings?
Is it fun to have brothers/sisters? Why or why not?
Today, we will read a story. But, before we start, what
should you do while we are reading?
Now let us begin to read the story all together.

The Old Man and His Sons

From Pat Nelson’s Magic Minutes: Quick Read Alouds for
Everyday
Retold by Dali Soriano

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Source:https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Bearded-grandpa/71932.html

Once an old man had many sons. They always

quarreled with one another. They quarreled over who should
use the bathroom first. At mealtime, they would fight over
who got to the table first. The old man had often begged his
sons to live together in peace, but without success.
One day he called them together. He showed them a
bundle of barbecue sticks. He asked each of them to break
the bundle. Each one tried with all his strength but the bundle
did not break. Then cutting the cord that bounds the sticks
together, the old man gave his sons a stick each. Then he told
his sons to break it. This was done with the greatest ease. The
old man exclaimed, “See, my sons, the power of unity! If you
bind yourselves together with brotherly love, you can win any
fight!” “Divided you will fall, united you will stand.”

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blanks with correct details from the
story in Activity 1.

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_________________ Name and describe the
Title of the story characters
_________________ 1._______________
From _________________
_________________ 2. _______________
Retold by ________________

Settings Plot
(When and where?) (What happened in the
story?)
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Problem Solution

(What was the old man (What did the old man
wants to his sons?) do to end the
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problem?)
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REMEMBER
Retelling is a way to share information about what you
have read and heard. It is also to check if you really
understand the text.

To retell the events from the story, consider the following:

 Know about the title and the writer of the story

 Read or listen very carefully to the story. Stay focus in
the text. If you cannot understand the content, you
may repeat to read or listen.
 Identify the characters, the settings and the events of
the story
 Gather the events and the information of the
content
 Put in order the events you recalled from the story

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POST-TEST
DIRECTIONS: Arrange the events in the story The Old Man
and His Sons. Rewrite the sentences on a paper.

He asked each of his sons to break the bundle. Each

of them tried with all his strength to break it but they all
failed.

One day the old man called his sons. He showed

them a bundle of sticks.

The old man told his sons about the power of unity. If
the sons are united, they can win any fight.

Then cutting the cord the old man gave each of

them a stick. The sons broke them very easily.

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