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GRADE 3
READING
ACTIVITY
TAKING CARE OF ANIMALS
Victor lives on a farm. He lives with his parents in a

little nipa house. Victor has an elder sister named Nora.
Victor and Nora help their parents. They take care of their
animals. They have a carabao, a horse a goat and some
chickens. Father takes care of the horse. Victor takes care of
the carabao. Mother takes care of the chickens. Nora takes
care of the goat. Their animals are all fat and healthy. Each
one takes care of his animal very well.
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Questions:
1. Where does Victor live?
2. Who is Victor’s sister?
3. How many kinds of animals do they have?
4. Who takes care of the carabao?
5. Who takes care of the chickens?
THE NEWSBOY
At five o’clock in the afternoon, the train arrives in
Naga City. The train carries the newspapers from Manila.
Alfredo, a Grade Four pupil,sells newspapers after class in the
afternoon. He sells for two hours. At seven o’clock, he goes
home. He has time to study his lessons.
Alfredo earns one hundred pesos a day. He wants to
give his money to Mother. But Mother told him to put his
money in his piggy bank. Alfredo’s parents are not poor. They
can give him the money he needs, but Alfredo wants to sell
newspaper. He wants to earn his own money.
Questions
1. Where does Alfredo live?
2. What time does the train arrive in Naga City?
3. What carries the newspapers to Naga City?
4. Where do the newspapers come from?
5. What does Alfredo do?
GROWING VEGETABLES
Lino went with Mother to market. They bought some
vegetables. Mother said, “I was able to buy only some with
my money. Vegetable cost much now”.
Lino was sorry for Mother. They did not have much
money. So he said “Let’s plant vegetables in our backyard.
Then we will not have to buy them in the market.”
So Lino planted three plots of tomatoes two plots of
eggplants and a plot of pechay. He had some amargoso
climbing on the bamboo fence. Lino worked in his garden
after class every afternoon. He grew more vegetables than
they could eat. Mother sold some of them in the market.
Questions
1. Where did Mother and Lino go?
2. What did they buy?
3. Which word tells about the vegetables?
4. Where did Lino plant vegetables?
5. How many plants did he have in all?
SHINE !
Antonio was the eldest child. They were six children in
the family. His family was poor. His father was sick. His
mother worked hard to earn money. She washed clothes for
other people.
But mother sent Antonio to school. He was in Grade
Four. Antonio helped Mother earn money. He worked after
classes in the afternoon. When he arrived from school, he
usually carried his box and shouted “Shine! Shine!” He
earned 80 pesos or more in the school, he earned three times
as much.
Would you like a boy like Antonio for a friend?
Questions
1. Which word tells about Antonio’s family?
2. What happened to his father
3. How many children were in the family?
4. Which word tells about Antonio?
5. Who worked hard to earn money?
THE FIRST MONKEY

Long time ago, there was a farmer who had a wide corn
field. He grew big and sweet corn. One day he saw some of
his corn gone.
The next day he hid behind a big mango tree. He
carried a stick. He watched and watched until he saw a man
coming. The man passed through a broken part of the fence.
The man began to pick some corn.
The farmer went from behind the mango tree and
walked towards the man. The man saw the farmer ran after
him but he could not catch with him. Then he threw the stick
at the man. The stick hit the man’s back and become a tail.
The man went up the tree. He became smaller and smaller
and smaller until he become a monkey.
Questions
1. When did the story happen?
2. What did the farmer have?
3. What words will tell about his corn?
4. What happened to his corn?
5. Where did the farmer hide one day?
OCTOPUS
Octopuses are related to snails. But unlike snails, an
octopus doesn’t have shell to protect it. Instead, this animal
which has eight arms squeeze its soft body into small cracks
or holes in rocks.
Once it is safely hidden , it is very hard for conger eels,
sharks, seals and people to find and eat octopus.
If an octopus is frightened, it does not slowly crawl
away.It jets off! It does this by forcing water out through its
siphon to make it shoot through the sea.
Questions
1. To what is an octopus related?
2. How is an octopus different from nails?
3. What are shells of sea animals used for?
4. How many arms has an octopus?
5. Where does an octopus hide itself?
THE BEES
The bees live in a big family. There are many bees in
the family. We cannot count them. The bee family is called a
swarm. The warm live in the hive. The hive hangs on a tree.
Each swarm has a mother bee. She is called a queen bee. She
is the mother of all the bees in the swarm. There are two kinds
of bees. The busy bees are called workers. The lazy bees are
called drones. The workers do not like the drones. They sting
the lazy drones. The workers gather nectar from flowers.
They put the nectar in the hive. The bees make the nectar into
honey. Honey is sweet. It is the food of the young bees.
Questions:
1. What is the bee family called?
2. What is the house of the bees called?
3. Who is the mother of all bees?
4. What do the workers gather?
5. Where do they gather nectar?
A TRUTHFUL BOY
Juan was alone at home. His mother and sister went to
the dentist. His father was still in his office. So Juan played
with his dog. He ran after his dog, and his dog ran after him.
Juan ran so fast that he ran against the table in the middle of
the living room. The table was knocked down. The flower
vase on the table was broken. How frightened Juan was! He
picked up the broken pieces and put them on the table.
Soon Mother and Pacita arrived. Pacita saw the broken
vase first.
“ Mother, look! The vase is broken,” said Pacita
“Who broke it?” asked Mother.
“Perhaps the cat”said Pacita.
Juan heard what Pacita said. He went to mother and
said, It is not fair to blame the cat. I broke the vase, Mother, I
am sorry.”
“It is good you told me the truth. Next time, be
careful,” said Mother.
1. Who was alone in the house?

2. Where did Mother go?
3. With whom did Juan play?
4. What was knocked down?
5. What happened to the vase?
THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE
A monkey wanted to cross a river. But there was no bridge he
could not swim. Then a crocodile swam to the river bank. The
monkey asked the crocodile if he could take him to other side
of the river. He wanted to visit his friends.
The crocodile told the monkey to jump on its back.
When they were in the middle of the river the crocodile
stopped swimming.
“You foolish monkey” said the crocodile. “Do you not
know that I am very hungry? I’m going to eat you”
“Wait I have a friend at the riverbank. Let us get him
and you will have two for lunch,” said the monkey.
“Very well,” said the crocodile. “Let us get him”
So the crocodile swam the fast. When they reached the
bank, the monkey jumped away and said “Goodbye,
Crocodile. Next time use your head.”
Questions
1. Who wanted to cross the river?
2. Why could he not walk a cross
3. Why could he not cross the river?
4. Why did he want to cross the river
5. Who took him to the other side?
MOTHER WORKS
Susan is four years old. She is young to go to school.
She stays at home with her little brother, Carlos, and a maid.
Susan is always looking for her mother. When she wakes up
in the morning., her mother is gone. When she goes to bed at
night, her mother is not home yet.
One morning she woke up to see her mother in the
room.She ran to her mother and kissed her.
“Mother, why are you always out of the house? Please
stay with us here,” Susan said.
“ My dear, I go to work to earn money. Since your
father died, I have to work hard. I have to teach day and night
to earn money. If I do not work, we will not eat,” said Mother.
“Will you not work today?” asked Susan.
“No, I do not work on Sundays. I stay in the house with
you,” said Mother.
“I wish every day is Sunday,” said Susan.
Questions
1. Why does Susan not go to school?
2. How old is Susan?
3. Who stays t home with her?
4. Why is mother always out of the house?
5. When does Mother stay at home?
THE CLEANERS
“ Mrs. Abad, our school nurse, will visit all the rooms
tomorrow morning,” said Miss Flores. “ She will tell us which
room is the cleanest after the flag ceremony.”
Three boys and three girls were the cleaners that day.
After class they started cleaning the room.The boys scrubbed
the floor with the coconut husks. They cleaned the desks.They
arranged them in straight rows.
The girls swept the floor. Then Lucia cleaned the
blackboards. She wiped the frames and pictures on the walls.
Minda arranged all the things in the room.Rita gathered all the
dust and dirt. She put them in the garbage can.
That morning, Mrs. Abad told the children, “Grade
Three room is the cleanest room this morning.
Questions
1. Who is Mrs. Abad?
2. What did Mrs. Abad do?
3. How many cleaners were there that day?
4. Who scrubbed the floor?
5. Who swept the floor?
THE CATERPILLAR
Linda went to the garden one morning. She saw that
only few leaves were left on the plant. Many leaves were
eaten. She looked behind the leaves. She saw a big caterpillar.
It was green. She thought it was a worm. She got the
caterpillar gently with a stick and put it inside a box. She put
some leaves with it. Every morning she looked inside the box.
She found the leaves gone. So she put new leaves every day.
One day she found the leaves still there. She thought the
caterpillar had died. She looked well under the leaves. She
saw the caterpillar sleeping inside a rolled leaf. She left it
alone. After several days, she saw a butterfly on the wall of
the box.The caterpillar was gone! It had grown into a
butterfly.
Questions
1. Where did Linda go?
2. What happened to the leaves of the plant?
3. What did she see?
4. What did Linda do with the caterpillar?
5. What did Linda see on the wall of the box?

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GRADE 3

Victor lives on a farm. He lives with his parents in a

THE FIRST MONKEY

1. Who was alone in the house?

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