Activity Sheet

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ENGLISH 6
QUARTER 2
Week 5-Day 2
Oral Language
EN6OL-IIf-5
Share brief impromptu remarks about topics of interest

Oral Reading Fluency

EN6F-IIf-2.9
Self-correct when reading
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Let’s Learn This

In the previous week, you read about social media and ICT terminologies.
Today, read this short essay about internet and join the class discussion.

Internet and its Uses

Internet is a global system that can be used for sharing information, providing
worldwide services and communication. Daily updates are easily and instantly available
in the internet. Also, you can search for any information you are looking for; in the
internet. In today’s world, all companies are able to operate only with the use of internet.
A lot of products and services are sold and provided through internet today. Once upon
a time, telephone was considered a fast mode of communication. Now, internet has
enormously emerged and replaced telephone as swift mode of communication.

Comprehension Questions:
1. What are the uses of internet?
2. According to the essay, what communication device was replaced by the
internet?
3. Other than that, what other things were replaced by the internet?

Let’s Try This

Task 1. Share Time!

Form a group of 10 members. Have a group sharing on the advantages and
disadvantages of social media.

Let’s Study This

Children learn to read by reading. As children read stories they learn a great
deal about print. Early readers begin to understand that it is their job to find cues to help
them work out what the text says in a book. Good readers focus on meaning but can
also use language structure or visual information as cues to help them problem solve
new texts.

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In reading, the ability to self-monitor meaning enables students to select and use
strategies to improve comprehension. Readers who self-monitor know when their
reading makes sense and when it does not. If comprehension is blocked, they know
what strategies to use to repair it. Self-monitoring is a significant component of
comprehension.

Here are some good strategies that can be used in monitoring and correcting
during reading.

 Cross Check
When you are reading ask yourself, "Does this word look right, sound right, and
make sense?"

 Reread
When you are reading and a problem comes up, return to the beginning of the
sentence or paragraph and try again.

 Predict
Ask yourself, "What word do I expect this to be?", "What do I think will happen
next?", "Does that make sense?"

 Skip, Read On, and Go Back

If you come to a word you don't know, skip it and read to the end of the sentence
thinking about what word would make sense. Using what you have learned, go
back and reread trying to figure out the word.

 Use Background Knowledge

When you are reading think about what you already know about the subject.
You might see a connection that will help you.

 Stop and Make a Picture in Your Mind

When reading longer text, stop and think about what has happened so far in
the story. Make a picture in your mind to help you "see" the events.

Reference:
Self-Monitoring. Accessed June 29, 2017.https://sites.google.com/site/capstonef2012/reading-
comprehension/within-the-text-skills/monitoring-correcting

Let’s Do This

Task 2. Stop, Ask, Fix: Student Checklist

Give yourself a short self-assessment. Read through the following list and put a check
mark next to the strategies you regularly use to read a difficult book or piece of writing.

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Which ones don’t you use? These should be strategies to keep in mind the next time
you read something challenging. Keep this checklist at your side as you read a text. Use
it to help prompt you to use the appropriate strategies available for watching and fixing
your comprehension.

ASK, When reading a difficult text…

❑ I periodically stop and ask, “Does this make sense?”
❑ I express the difference between my own knowledge and beliefs and ideas expressed
in text.
❑ I express awareness or lack of awareness of what the content means.
❑ I express doubt about understanding when I am unsure or when meaning is unclear.
❑ I ask “Where did I lose track?”
❑ I identify the place where I began to lose comprehension.
❑ I use fix-up strategies when I experience problems.
❑ I reread.
❑ I read on and try to clear up the confusion.
❑ I substitute words I know (and that fit the context) to replace words I don’t understand
to see if that works.
❑ I make mind pictures to “see” in my head what the text means.
❑ I connect what I am reading to what I have read previously in this text, and what I
have read and knew before I read this text. I may ask an author-and-me question
because my personal knowledge may help me figure out the meaning.
❑ I ask myself questions (Why did the character do this? Why did the author put this in?
How is this important? Am I supposed to “think and search” or infer?).
❑ I use other strategies.
❑ I ask for help if I have made attempts to understand but can’t get it. I ask a peer and
then I ask my teacher or another adult.

Reference:
Stop Ask Fix Checklist. Accessed June 27, 2017.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/comprehension/stopaskfixchecklist.pdf

Let’s Do More

Task 3. Compu-Talk
You will be divided into groups. Share your thoughts about using social media like
Facebook, Tweeter, and Instagram. Be ready for a debate. Defend your side.

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Social Media: An Advantage or A

Disadvantage to Students

Let’s Test Ourselves

Task 4. Guided Reading

Guided by the strategies in Let’s Study This, read the selection below and do the self-
monitoring.

Gas Exchange
Did you know that your body has its very own gas exchange program that runs 24 hours
a day? It’s called the respiratory system. It is one of your body’s vital systems, which
means you could not live without it. Every time you take a breath, oxygen enters your
lungs and is carried around to all the body’s cells by the circulatory system. Waste
products, like carbon dioxide gas, are picked up by the circulatory system as well.
Carbon dioxide is dropped off at the lungs so you can breathe it out. The respiratory and
circulatory systems need each other.
The respiratory system brings in oxygen and pushes out carbon dioxide. The
circulatory system transports these gases where they need to go. The two systems
work together to make sure that your body gets what it needs to survive. That is why we
say that the respiratory and circulatory systems are interdependent. They need each
other.
The respiratory system is not just your lungs. It also includes your nose, mouth,
and the air passageways that connect them to your lungs. After you inhale air through
your nose and mouth, it enters a tube in your throat called the trachea. Right before the
trachea gets to your lungs, it splits into two smaller tubes called the bronchi. The deeper
you go into your lungs, the smaller and smaller the tubes become as they keep dividing
in two. The very smallest tubes end with tiny sacs. These sacs look like grape clusters
under the microscope. These are called alveoli. They diffuse oxygen into the blood and
receive carbon dioxide being returned to the lungs from the blood. Carbon dioxide
travels out of your body when you exhale.
Your body has a special way of making sure that you can get the oxygen that you
need when you breathe. Your chest actually changes size when you inhale. You have
muscles that are attached to your ribs. These muscles pull up when you inhale. Your
diaphragm, a large muscle under your lungs, pulls down. This gives plenty of room so
you can get the air you need.

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Answer the following questions based on the reading passage. Don’t forget to go back
to the passage whenever necessary to find or confirm your answers.

1) What is the purpose of the circulatory system?

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2) Identify the parts of the respiratory system.
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3) What is the function of the alveoli?
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4) How does the body get rid of carbon dioxide?
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5) How does your body make room for a deep breath?
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Source
Gas Exchange. Accessed June 27,2017.
http://kuropasscience.weebly.com/uploads/8/3/2/1/83218404/oxygen_exchange_respiratory_reading.pdf

Let’s Enrich Ourselves

Task 5. Check Me Out!

Read an article from a book/magazine from your library. Apply your skills in self-
monitoring in reading.

Let’s Remember This

The ability to self-monitor meaning enables reader to select and use strategies to
improve comprehension. Readers who self-monitor know when their reading makes
sense and when it does not.

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ANSWER KEY
(For Teachers’ Use Only)

Task 1. Share Time!

Assessment Rubric for a Collaborative Group Report
Reference: http://glory.gc.maricopa.edu/~mdesoto/webquest/webquest_evaluation.htm

Task 2. Stop, Ask, Fix: Student Checklist

(This is a self-check activity.)

Task 3. Compu-Talk
(Use rubric for this task.)

CLASSROOM DEBATE RUBRIC

Levels of Performance
Criteria 1 2 3 4
1. Organization Unclear in Clear in some Most clear and Completely
and Clarity: most parts parts but not orderly in all clear and
over all parts orderly
viewpoints and presentation
responses are
outlined both clearly
and orderly.
2. Use of Few or no Some relevant Most reasons Most relevant
Arguments: relevant reasons given given: most reasons
reasons given relevant given in
reasons are given support
to support
viewpoint.
3. Use of Few or no Some relevant Many Many
Examples and relevant examples/facts examples/facts relevant
Facts: supporting given given: most supporting
examples/facts relevant examples
examples and facts and facts
are given to support given
reasons.
4. Use of Rebuttal: No effective Few effective Some effective Many
counter- counter- counter- effective
arguments made by arguments arguments arguments counter-
the other teams are made made made arguments
responded to and made
dealt with
effectively.

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5. Presentation Few style Few style All style All style

Style: features were features were features were features were
used; not used used, most used
tone of voice, use convincingly convincingly convincingly convincingly
of gestures, and
level of enthusiasm
are convincing to
audience.

Task 4. Guided Reading

(Pupils may use the student checklist in Let’s Do This.)
Answer to comprehension questions.
1.It carries oxygen throughout the body and picks waste product.
2. They are lungs, nose, mouth, and air passageways
3. They diffuse oxygen into the blood and receive carbon dioxide from the blood.
4. The circulatory system takes it to the lungs.
The lungs release it when we exhale.
5. The muscles attached to the ribs pull up and the diaphragm pulls down.

Task 5. Check Me Out!

(Pupils may use the student checklist in Let’s Do This.)

Prepared by:

MELISSA D. VIDAD

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