DEVELOPING

READING POWER 4

SKILL A
(Noting Details)
 A WET AFTERNOON A WET AFTERNOON
It was cloudy that afternoon. It looked like Answer the questions:
it would rain. Tonio and Lucio were walking 1. How were Tonio and Lucio related?
home. They had visited their grandmother who
2. Why did it look like it would rain?
lived on the other side of the ricefield.
“Let’s walk fast, Tonio,” Lucio told his 3. Where did Tonio and Lucio come from?
brother. “We might be caught in the rain. 4. What did they do there?
Mother would be waiting for us.” 5. What might happen to the boys?
“It’s beginning to rain!” Tonio said as he 6. What did they do?
ran under a tree to take shelter. Lucio followed 7. Where did they run when it rained?
him. 8. Who would be waiting for them at
Soon the rain stooped and they went on home?
walking. They were already home when it 9. What did they do when the rain stopped?
rained again. 10. What happened when they reached
home?
 FREE CANDIES FREE CANDIES
Vic and Jicky were walking to school. Near a Answer the questions:
store they saw a man giving free candies to children.
“Hurry, Jicky, let’s ask for some candies,” 1. Where were the two boys going?
shouted Vic as he ran towards the man. “There may 2. Where did they see the man and the
not be any candy left for us.”
“No, vic, stop!” called Jicky. “those candies
children?
might be drugged.” 3. What was the man doing?
Vic stopped at once. He remembered that Miss 4. Why did Vic run towards the man?
Reyes told them not to accept candies or anything to 5. What did Jicky think about the
eat or drink from strangers. They might be drugged.”
“Quick, Jicky,” Vic said in a frightened voice. candies?
“Those children might eat those candies. Let’s report 6. Why did Vic stop running?
them to the principal.” 7. From whom should children not accept
anything to eat or drink?
8. How did Vic feel?
9. To whom did Vic want to report?
10. What must the children do?
 WHEN FRUITS ARE IN SEASON WHEN FRUITS ARE IN SEASON
Many of our native fruits are very delicious. Answer the questions:
Mangoes, caimitos, chicos, oranges and lanzones
are a few of them. Some of them can be bought at 1. Which of these fruits are native to our
any time of the year. However, most fruits are country?
plentiful when in season. 2. How does this fruit taste?
Mangoes are mostly in season in May, caimitos
3. When can we buy fruits?
in March and lanzones in October. Bananas grow
the whole year round. 4. When are fruits plentiful?
Fruit trees that grow in different places bear 5. When are mangoes in season?
more fruits at different seasons. That is why in 6. When are caimitos in season?
December we can buy lanzones from Mindanao
7. When are lanzones in season?
even when the lanzones season in Laguna is over.
8. Are all fruits in season at the same
time?
9. Where can we buy lanzones during the
month of December?
10. Why can’t we but lanzones in Laguna
during the month of December?
 FLORA’S GODMOTHER FLORA’S GODMOTHER
One Sunday Flora went to her godmother’s house. Answer the questions:
She did not see her Ninang Marta but someone was
there who looked like her. When she was about to 1. When did Flora go to her godmother’s
leave, the woman laughed. house?
“Why, Flora,” she asked, “don’t you remember
your own godmother?” 2. Whom did she see in the house?
Flora was surprised. The woman was her 3. Did she know the woman?
godmother but she looked different. She wore a black 4. What did the woman do when she was
wig that made her look younger and prettier.
“I did not recognize you at once, Ninang,” Flora
about to leave?
said. “You look different with a wig.” 5. How did Flora feel?
“Is that so?”, aling Marta asked. “A friend sold 6. Who was the woman?
me her long hair and I had it made into a wig. A 7. What made her look different?
hairdresser made it for me.”
8. How did it make her look different?
9. Was the wig given to her godmother?
10. Who made the wig?
 CARLITO’S HOBBY CARLITO’S HOBBY
Carlito has a hobby. He loves birds so he Answer the questions:
collects them. His father bought him different kinds
of birds which he keeps in clean cages. He takes 1. What is Carlito’s hobby?
good care of them. He has lovebirds, mays, doves 2. Who gave him different kinds of birds?
and a parrot. He gives them food and drinking water 3. Where does he kept his birds?
everyday. 4. How often does he give food and drink to
Once he was able to catch some mayas. How? his pets?
He kept the door of a big cage open with a string that
5. Does Carlito take good care of his pets?
he held from a distance. He put some rice inside the
cage to attract the birds. Soon some birds flew down 6. What birds was he able to catch once?
and entered the cage. Carlito let go of the string and 7. What did he use in catching them?
the door shut. The mayas were caught inside the 8. What did he use to attract the birds?
cage. These birds soon became pets, too. 9. How many birds were attracted?
10. What did Carlito do with the birds he
caught?
 IN BED WITH INFLUENZA IN BED WITH INFLUENZA
Lola Luchi was in bed with a cold. She sneezed and Answer the questions:
coughed. In the evening she had a fever.
When a doctor was called, he gave her some 1. What kept Lola in bed?
medicines to take. 2. What did she have in the morning?
“Lola, you have influenza,” Dr. Paras said. Drink
plenty of fruit juice and stay in bed. Take this medicine
3. Who said she had influenza?
and you will get well.” Then he told Aunt Celia to follow 4. Who gave her some medicine to take?
all directions in giving Lola Luchi her medicines. 5. What should she drink?
Lola Luchi was very careful. She used her own
spoon, cup and plate. She did not allow the children to go
6. What did the doctor tell Aunt Celia to
near her. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief do?
when she sneezed or coughed. 7. Whose things did Lola use?
In a few days Lola was well again.
8. Where did she sneeze and cough?
9. Who were not allowed to go near her?
10. How soon did Lola Luchi get well?
 MARITES LOVES DAISIES MARITES LOVES DAISIES
Marites is fond of daisies. One day, she bought five Answer the questions:
daisy plants with flowers from a plant vendor. They were
planted in small plastic bags. The floweres were of 1. Who is fond of daisies?
different colors – red, orange, pink, white and yellow. 2. From whom did she buy the daisies?
Marites was very happy when she reached home.
She watered the plants and put them in the shade. 3. Where were they planted?
After two days she saw that their leaves were turning 4. How many daisy plants did she buy?
yellow. The flowers were wilting, too. She thought that 5. How did Marites feel when she reached
she had been cheated. She pulled out a plant and saw that
it had no roots. The leaves were tied together to make home?
them appear like a plant. 6. Where did she put the plants?
Marites was very angry. She learned a lesson and 7. What did she see after two days?
said she would not be cheated again.
8. What did she think was done to her?
9. What did she find out when she pulled
out a plant?
10. What did Marites say?
 ORCHIDS ORCHIDS
There are many kinds of orchids in the Answer the questions:
Philippines. They grow wild in the forests. Some
grow on the ground and others on trees. 1. How many kinds of orchids are there in
Orchids have beautiful flowers. Some stay the Philippines?
fresh for sometime. The cattleya and waling-waling 2. Where do they grow wild?
stay fresh for as long as two weeks. 3. What can you say about the orchids?
Orchids are made into corsage. They are worn
4. Can they grow on trees?
by women on their dresses. Of all the orchids.
Women pay more for the cattleya. It is the most 5. How long can some orchids stay fresh?
beautiful and stays fresh longer than others. 6. For how long can a waling-waling stay
Some people make money from orchids by fresh?
raising them and selling their flowers. 7. Into what orchids are made?
8. Where do women wear them?
9. Which is the most beautiful orchid?
10. How do some people make money for
orchids?
 THE TELEGRAM THE TELEGRAM
It was late at night. Someone knocked hard at the Answer the questions:
door. Dado’s father looked out of the window to see who
was there. 1. Who knocked at the door?
“Telegram, Sir!” the man outside said.
Dado opened the door quickly. His father and 2. Who looked out of the window to
mother followed him. see who was there?
“I hope it’s nothing bad,” Aling Loleng said.
Mang Poldo opened the telegram at once. Then he 3. What did the man outside say?
read it silently. He was very quiet. Aling Loleng looked 4. Who opened the door?
at her husband. – She thought something was wrong.
Soon Mang Poldo began to laugh. He shouted with 5. What did Aling Loleng say?
joy. He handed the telegram to Aling Loleng. She read it: 6. Who opened the telegram?
LEOPOLDO CRUZ – won ten thousand pesos – Contest.
Collect Monday. – Kleen Soap company. 7. How did he read it?
8. What did Aling Loleng think about
the telegram?
9. Who shouted with joy?
10. What was the telegram about?
 HOW DYSENTERY WAS SPREAD HOW DYSENTERY WAS SPREAD
Some years ago, the people of Barrio San Answer the questions:
Antonio did not have safe water for their daily
needs. They got their water from a well near the 1. What barrio did not have safe water?
schoolhouse. 2. Where did the people get their water?
One day, it was separated in school that 3. Where was it located?
someone was sick of dysentery. Mr. Castro, the 4. What sickness was reported in school?
principal, told the pupils and the barrio people to 5. Who was the principal of the school?
boil all their drinking water. Many of the people 6. What did he tell the barrio people to do?
could not understand why they had to boil water
7. What did the people think about the water
from the well. They thought that clear water was
already safe from germs. from the well?
Soon many pupils and their parents got sick. 8. Did all the barrio people boil their drinking
Only Mr. Castro’s family and those who boiled water?
their water did not get sick. 9. Why did some people and their parents get
sick?
10. Who did not become sick?
 DAMA DE NOCHE DAMA DE NOCHE
Most plants have bright-colored flowers. Answer the questions:
They open during the day. There are also plants
with flowers that bloom at night. Their flowers 1. When do most flowers open?
are either white or light-colored. They smell very 2. What kind of flowers bloom at night?
sweet. Some of these are the dama de noche, 3. What flowers have sweet smell?
sampaguita and camia. 4. What flowers open at night?
Dama de noche means “lady of the night.” 5. What does dama de noche mean?
Its little star-like flowers opens at night. They
give out a sweet odor that can be smelled from a
6. What is the shape of its flower?
distance. By its fragrance, you can tell that there 7. When do its flower bloom?
is a dama de noche plant nearby. In the morning 8. In the story, what can be smelled from
the flowers lose their fragrance. a distance?
9. How does one know that there is a
dama de noche plant nearby?
10. What happens to its odor in the
morning?
 FLAG CEREMONY AT THE RIZAL FLAG CEREMONY AT THE RIZAL
PARK PARK
It was rizal Day. Mr. Santos and his two sons, Victor Answer the questions:
and Luis, rode in a taxi to the Rizal Park. They would
attend the flag raising ceremony at the Luneta that day. It 1. Where did Mr. Santos and his two sons go?
would be held in front of the Rizal monument at seven 2. Where did Mr. Santos and the boys stay?
o’clock in the morning. 3. At what time did the ceremony begin?
It was still early but the crowd was already getting 4. What would Mr. Santos and his sons attend?
big. There were many small children with their parents.
5. Where did they ride?
They would play in the park after the ceremony.
The three took their places near the monument. 6. What did they see in front of the monument?
When the band played the National Anthem, everybody 7. When did they visit the place?
stood at attention. The flag went up quickly till it reached 8. What the small children do after the
the top of the pole. Soon the anthem was over and the ceremony?
people began to move away.
9. Why did the people move away?
10. What was played by the band?
 THE WALKATHON THE WALKATHON
Lina’s father wanted to grow strong and Answer the questions:
healthy. One day he started a walkathon with a
group of friends. Every morning they walked fast 1.What did Lina’s father want to become?
from their places to the schoolhouse. Then they 2.With whom did he start a walkathon?
turned around a wide circle along the park and back 3.When did they have their walkathons?
to their own places. They did this every morning 4.How much exercise did he have after they
when other people were still asleep.
started the walkathon?
After sometime their small group became big
when other neighbors joined them. Their little 5.From where did they start their walk?
group of six became a big group of forty members. 6.What place did they reach first?
Lin’s father as not the only one who grew 7.Where did they turn around?
strong and healthy, but his neighbors as well. 8.What happened to their group?
9.Who joined their group?
10.How many in all became members of their
group?
 TRAVELLING IN SPACE TRAVELLING IN SPACE
Years and years ago man never thought he Answer the questions:
could travel in space. Rocketships were only
1. In what place did man think he could not
for the comic books. Now, rocketships travel in
space. They have orbited Earth and landed on travel?
the moon. 2. When were rocketships only for comic
Men who travel in space are called books?
astronauts or cosmonauts. They are very brave 3. Where have rocketships orbited?
men. The first man to orbit our Earth in a 4. Where do rocketships travel?
spaceship was a Russian cosmonaut. The first 5. Who are astronauts?
man to land on the Moon was an American
6. What kind of men are astonauts?
astronaut. These men have become
international heroes. 7. Who was the first to orbit the Earth in a
spaceship?
8. Who was the first to land on the moon?
9. What have these men become?
10. What is the Russian name for astronaut?
 THE LIGHTNING TRAVELLING IN SPACE
Lydia saw a flash of bright light. Clap! Br-r-r-m-m! Answer the questions:
The sound of thunder rolled on. Lydia covered her ears
with her hands and ran to her mother. 1. What did Lydia see?
“What’s wrong, Lydia?” asked Mother. “You’re safe
in the house. The lightning won’t hurt you here.” 2. What followed it?
“Mother, why won’t the lightning hurt me?” 3. What did Lydia do?
“First of all you are in the house,” explained Mother.
“More often lightning strikes people in an open space. It 4. Where was Lydia?
finds the highest place to strike. Farmers walking alone in 5. Was Lydia safe there?
the field or riding on carabaos are often struck by
lightning. If a farmer is caught in a thunderstorm, he 6. Where does lightning often strike
should lie down on the ground and wait until it is over. people?
He should stay away from his carabao and avoid staying
under a tree.
7. Is a field a closed place?
8. What place does lightning strike?
9. What should a farmer on the field do
when lightning occurs?
10. What should a person avoid when there
is a lightning?