NAME: ______________________________________

GRADE & SECTION: _________________

Activity Sheets for Reading

Activity #1

The words in the box are used in the lesson. See how quickly you can choose the word
that fits the meaning given. Write your answer in the blank provided before each number.

interaction sensory complex

evaluation versatile tool

continuous integrated mental

comprehension vicariously perceptual

_____________________ 1. not simple

_____________________ 2. referring to the mind or thought

_____________________ 3. adaptable; changeable

_____________________ 4. makes use of one of the senses

_____________________ 5. without end

_____________________ 6. understands ideas

_____________________ 7. incorporated; made part of

_____________________ 8. an implement; a means to an end

_____________________ 9. mutual or reciprocal

_____________________ 10. can be judged; an assessment

Answer each question with ideas taken from the selection.

1. Why is reading a valuable skill?

2. People read for different reasons. Give an example of how reading is a tool:
a. for pleasure
b. to get specific information
c. to solve a problem
Activity #2

Complete the statements without referring the selection.

1. The movement of the eyes when reading can be described as _________________.

2. The pauses made by the eyes when reading can be described as ________________.
3. The quick eye movement made from the end of a line to the beginning of the next line is
called _______________.
4. All the words the eyes see at one fixation is called _______________.
5. When a reader reads a sentence backward because he or she wants to take a second
look at an event mentioned, he or she makes a ______________.
6. The movements made by the eyes when they move from one fixation to another is
called ____________.
7-8. A reader will read faster if he or she has a wide ____________ and makes less
____________.

Activity #3

Match the meaning in Column A with the term in Column B. Write the letter of your answer
in the blank.

Column A Column B

________ 1. all the words used by an a. analyze

individual
________ 2. capacity to understand b. distinguish

________ 3. combining of parts to c. synthesize

make a whole
________ 4. any living plant or animal d. vocabulary

________ 5. no end e. evaluate

________ 6. recognize a difference f. comprehension

________ 7. ability to remember g. organism

________ 8. understand a whole by h. quest

looking at its parts
________ 9. search i. continuous

________ 10. judge j. recall

Write True before each correct statement and False before each wrong statement. Be ready to
explain what makes the statement wrong.

_________ 11. The wider your vocabulary, the easier you will understand your
Physics Lesson.
_________ 12. Deafness does not affect one’s reading ability.
_________ 13. A quarrel at home can cause you to get a low score in a test given in
school.
_________ 14. The nine o’clock session in the morning is a better time for a reading
lesson than a twelve o’clock noon session.
_________ 15. The higher your IQ, the better reader you are.
_________ 16. Instead of just lying down doing nothing when you are not feeling
well, read lessons because then, you have all the time you need.
 Activity #4

Read the meanings of the key word. Then read each sentence where the word is used.
Think of the specific meaning of the word as used in the sentence. Copy the letter of your
answer and write it in the blank before each number.

a. characteristic

way b. road or passage

c. manner of doing things

_______ 1. This is the way to hold the

pen.
_______ 2. He is already set in his ways.

_______ 3. The way is dangerous.

a. small room

cell b. a group of members

c. unit of plant or animal tissue

_______ 4. The cell is very dark.

_______ 5. The cell is very active.

_______ 6. The cell is irregularly shaped.

 a. position

stand b. small platform

c. small structure at which goods are sold

_______ 7. Place the stand on the stage.

_______ 8. His stand is in a mall in Makati

City.
_______ 9. Josie’s stand did not change in
spite of the pressure.

a. gem

stone b. rock

c. unit of weight

_______ 10. The stone is heavy.

_______ 11. The stone is precious.

_______ 12. The item weighs one stone.

a. anything caught

catch b. device for fastening

c. person desirable in marriage

_______ 13. Change the catch. It’s rusty.

_______ 14. The fisherman had a plentiful

catch last night.
_______ 15. Johnny is a good catch. He is
rich, handsome, and intelligent.

a. obscurity

shade b. relative darkness

c. degree of tone or color

_______ 16. Stay in the shade. The sun will

burn your skin.
 _______ 17. This shade is pleasing to the
eye.
_______ 18. He is a good musician, but his
brother puts him in the shade.

a. subject of a suit

case b. something in which an object is enclosed

c. relation of a noun or pronoun to other words

_______ 19. The CD-ROM cases are on sale in SM

City.
_______ 20. The word him is in objective case.

_______ 21. The detective is having a difficulty in

solving the baffling case.

a. career

course b. method

c. part of a meal served

_______ 22. She’s finishing a short-time course.

_______ 23. The first course served as soup.

_______ 24. Decide what course of action we are going

to take.

a. origin or source

root b. any underground part of a plant

c. a number or quantity that, when multiplied by itself a

number of times, produces a given quantity (Random
House Dictionary, 1999)
_______ 25. Love of money is the root of all evil.

_______ 26. Find the square root of 249.

_______ 27. The root absorbs water from the soil.

a. position
 b. stopping place or terminal
station
c. radio broadcast center

_______ 28. Rosa waited for her parents at the

Dangwa station.
_______ 29. The new station aired song requests.

_______ 30. You should dress according to your

new station.
 a. a person or thing that delivers objects

carrier b. a device by which something is supported

or moved
c. a person who has disease germs to which
he is immune
31. The place has to fumigated
_______ because there are many
mosquitoes which are carriers
of dengue fever.
32. Mr. Santos gave the carrier a
_______ generous tip for handling the
fragile package carefully.
_______ 33. The carrier is squeaking. It has
to be oiled.

a. sharp noise

crack b. chink or break

c. to say cleverly

_______ 34. He cracks jokes that keep us

laughing.
_______ 35. There a crack in the cup.

_______ 36. The cochero cracked his whip

and the horse started running.
 a. flooring if a ship

deck b. pack of cards

c. to array; adorn

______ 37. The sailor cleaned the deck well.

_______ 38. I received a deck of cards this

afternoon.
_______ 39. Don’t deck the room with a lot of
artificial flowers.

a. a stick used in walking for support

staff b. a number of persons working in service

c. arrangement of five lines and four spaces where

notes are indicated
_______ 40. Indicate the lower do on the staff.

_______ 41. The staff attended an important meeting

this morning.
_______ 42. The shepherd always carries a staff as he
watches the sheep.
Activity #5

Apply the levels of comprehension in the activity that follows:

A poisonous snake died after biting a middle-aged drug addict in a village in

Central India. The Press Trust of India said that the snake had bitten the man and wound
itself around his leg. As soon as the snake was separated sometime later, it wriggled in
agony and died.

Several villagers saw the incident in September 2001 in Faizabad, in Uttar Pradesh
State.

1. Who was bitten?

Answer : _______________________________________________

Level : _______________________________________________

2. Where did this happen?

Answer : _______________________________________________

Level : _______________________________________________

3. Why did the snake die?

Answer : _______________________________________________

Level : _______________________________________________

4. Why is this news interesting?

Answer : _______________________________________________

Level : _______________________________________________

5. If you were bitten by the poisonous snake, what would you do to save your life?
Answer : _______________________________________________

Level : _______________________________________________

6. What title would you give this news story?

Answer : _______________________________________________

Level : _______________________________________________
Activity #6

Identify the kind of reading done in the following situations. Write your answers in the
blank.

_________ 1. You want to know the telephone number of a friend.

2. Norma goes to a bookstore where browsing or brief reading is
_________ allowed. She goes into a corner where new magazines or movie stars
are displayed.
3. The class is given a timed test on inventions and their inventors, and
_________ the students are allowed to open their books/references to complete
a chart.
_________ 4. Joselito has been asked by his teacher to compare the camera to an
eye.
_________ 5. Cynthia wants to find out how a word is pronounced.
_________ 6. You are given a timed test. The instruction is the give the topic of each
paragraph.
_________ 7. Is it Sunday and you are holding Sports and Entertainment sections of
The Times.
Activity #7

Read each sentence carefully, then write three (3) simple and short sentences based on
the facts around found in it.

Example:

The new two-piece bathing suit Rose Mae wore on the beach was given by her aunt.

a) Rose Mae has a new bathing suit.

b) It is a two-piece.
c) It was given by her aunt.
d) Rose Mae went to the beach.
e) Rose Mae wore her new bathing suit.

1. Dante, a polio victim, works at the school canteen as a student assistant from Monday
to Friday.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

2. An honest taxi driver returned the wallet with Php50,000 cash and a check worth
Php20,000 to Miss Estepa, our teacher.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

3. To the great delight of the university, our varsity basketball team won the championship
game during the NCAA league last week.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

4. Don and Maria decided to take the English qualifying exams on Monday, August 25, and
they found out that it was not as difficult as they feared.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

5. The whole town learned of Paul’s heroism when the morning papers told how he risked
his life to save his buddies.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________
 c. __________________________________________________________________

6. Names are fascinating “mini-histories” that bring to life the ways and thoughts of men
of a much earlier era.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

7. Many of our common, everyday words are derived from people’s names which may
have been that of an inventor, a man with a new idea, or a woman involved in a famous
incident.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

8. Man’s imagination is boundless when it comes to naming things and the stories about
place-names are as varied as those about people’s names.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

9. After the ambitious young men delivered the metal to the recycling center, they divided
the payment evenly among themselves.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

10. Six boys in our neighborhood used an inexpensive metal detector for a treasure hunt in
the woods.
a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________