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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

Taguig City Campus
Gen. Santos Ave., Upper Bicutan, Taguig City


Developmental Reading

Students Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: ___________

Directions: Read the statements carefully and encircle the best answer that suits the
questions.
1. Below are definitions of reading according to experts except one.
a. Reading is asking questions of printed text.
b. Reading is a dynamic process.
c. Reading maketh a full man.
d. Reading is for fun.

2. The reading process that the child is able to describe pictures in books and able to
follow verbal directions.
a. Advanced Picture Reading
b. Making Early Connections - Describing Pictures
c. Transitional Picture Reading
d. Forming a Story by Connecting pictures

3. A kind of reader that can deal with more complex issues and topics.
a. Fluent reader
b. Emergent reader
c. Proficient reader
d. Independent reader

4. Which does not belong in the foundational skills of the Beginning Reading Stage?
a. Print Awareness
b. Phonics
c. Syntax
d. Comprehension

5. The person who developed a Skills Ladder to put emphasis on certain skills at a
time.
a. Grace Goodell
b. James Gee
c. Kenneth Goodman
d. Roy Harris

6. Various experts have been recognized for their effort of unlocking the mysteries
behind the reading process. Who among them is not included?
a. David Dun
b. Robert Ruddell
c. Diane Henry Leipzig
d. Ruth Schoenbach

7. According to Anderson and Pearson, schemata is?
a. Already known general ideas subsume and anchor new information.
b. A mechanism labeled as the message centre.
c. Abstract knowledge structure.
d. Knowledge already stored in memory.
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8. "The murder happened at the cemetery.," is what kind of comprehension level?
a. Literal
b. Applied
c. Interpretive
d. Schema

9. The difference of skimming to scanning.
a. Used when looking up a word.
b. Used to quickly identify the main ideas of a text.
c. Used to find a particular piece of information.
d. Used to look for the author's use of organizers.

10. Choose the antonym that fits the analogy.
Gigantic is to tiny as taciturn is to______.
a. Achieved
b. Cordial
c. Talkative
d. Mature

11. Identify the type of context clues.
In March, the weather is usually pacific, unlike the bad and stormy weather during
the months of June and July.
a. Inferring meaning from Context
b. Comparison clues
c. Contrast clues
d. Explanation

12. Choose the corresponding meaning of the idiom, "a finger in every pie."
a. Unsuccessful action
b. Something is genuinely what it appears to be.
c. Expresses praise to someone for doing something.
d. Involved in many activities

13. Supply with the correct idiom.
"We shared a small office where neither of us had enough _______."
a. down in the mouth
b. elbow room
c. at arm's length
d. face value

14. Give the main idea of the selection.
"Environmental education has been considered an additional or elective subject in much
of traditional K-12 curriculum. At the elementary school level, environmental education
can take the form of science enrichment curriculum, natural history field trips,
community service projects, and participation in outdoor science schools. In secondary
school, environmental curriculum can be a focused subject within the sciences or is a part
of student interest groups or clubs. At the undergraduate and graduate level, it can be
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considered its own field within education, environmental studies, environmental science
and policy, ecology, or human/cultural ecology programs." -Wikipedia
a. Environmental education cuts across year levels.
b. Environmental education as an additional subject in the curriculum.
c. Purpose of environmental education
d. Environmental education

15. What character trait can,be inferred from this famous line?
"I did not kill anybody."
-Flor Contemplacion
a. Hopeless
b. Righteous
c. Sarcastic
d. Defensive

16. What does the riddle mean?
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
a. Cigarette
b. Fire
c. Match
d. Gas

17. Identify the author's purpose in writing the selection.

Rain is very important. If there were no rain, there would be life only in the sea. In parts
of the world where there is no rain, there is no life. Rain is treasured and prayed for in
countries where there is not enough of it. Rain is something that cleans and washes the
air, nourishes vegetable life on which our own life depends, and insures a continuous
supply of fresh water.
a. to stimulate imagination
b. to express a point of view
c. to provide information
d. to persuade

18. What kind of figurative language is the sentence below?
Frost's "Birches": One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
a. Understatement
b. Synecdoche
c. Metonymy
d. Alliteration

19. Abominable is the synonym of?
a. Pleasant
b. Fine
c. Agreeable
d. Loathsome
20. Promiscuous -prudent; prominent -_________.
a. Cordial
b. Rationality
c. Unrecognizable
d. Mature

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Key to Correction
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. D
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. C
12. D
13. B
14. A
15. D
16. B
17. C
18. A
19. D
20. C