PREFACE

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An assessment tool for reading is an essential element of education used to inform

instruction (Wren, 2004). Through this, teachers administered effective instructions for his or
her diverse learners needs, for them to improve in access to the general education curriculum.
In this module the activities were divided into 5 phases which are: Screen Phonological
Awareness (SPA), Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (PHIL-IRI), Dynamics Indicators of Basic
Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), School Readiness Assessment (SREA) and Marie Clay. It focuses on
providing the child with interesting activities to stimulate development in reading and writing
skills. Children must take up the pretest to fully examine his or her strength then followed by
the activities set to ______ the child _____. Each assessment assessed different learners based
on the qualification of the tool administered.
This module is best used under the guidance of a parent or educator as some of the
activities requires explanation and/or the handling of desired materials. Such interaction would
also help foster a closer relationship between the adult and the child. It is important to
remember to praise and encourage the child attempts and achievements.
The multiple of activities given and the simple but attractive presentations of the
material make this book suitable for different learners.

Table of Contents

Remediation Resource book

Copyright Page
Acknowledgement
Preface
Table of Contents
Spa
PHIL-IRI
DIBELS
SREA
Marie Clay
References
Appendices
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b.
c.
d.

Pretest and post-test each tool

Profile of the learners
Documentation
Curriculum vitae

Phonemic Awareness Assessment Tools

It is best to assess children individually and frequently throughout the year. Explicit
systematic instruction can then take place in small groups according to student need.
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Phonological Awareness
Teaching phonemic awareness to children significantly improves their reading when compared
to instruction without any attention to phonemic awareness. Specifically, research results led the
National Reading Panel to conclude that Phonological Awareness training positively impacts
students phonemic awareness, reading, and spelling.
Use the P.A.S.T. Assessment, included in Literacy Firsts Phonological Awareness program to
screen your Preschool and Kindergarten children. Developing Expert Readers: Phonological
Awareness was made for Response to Intervention. Using the assessment results you will know
which skills individual students have mastered and which ones they still need help to master.
Use the 45 Phonological Awareness Lessons, 40 Center Activities and associated materials to
help prepare your children to become successful readers!
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1. According to the author, poetry

lovers under thirty generally
A. have a strong sense of their own inferiority during school years
B. are always products of boarding schools
C. have an unhappy home life
D. are outgoing as adolescents
E. long to return to early childhood
2. The authors main purpose is apparently to
A. describe what lead to his being an introvert
B. explore the reasons for his early taste in poetry
C. explain what lead to his becoming a poet

D. account for the unhappy adolescents aesthetic sense

E. criticize a system that makes young people feel unhappy and neglected
3. The word contingent (line 8) most nearly means
A. juvenile
B. scholarly
C. competitive
D. immediate
E. intelligent
4. The author regards the introverted adolescent as ultimately lucky because he has
A. become financially successful in an industrialized society
B. ceased to envy others
C. cultivated inner resources that he will need in modern society
D. a better general education than those who were envied in school
E. learned to appreciate nature
5. To the adolescent the authentic poetic note is one of
A. pain and affirmation
B. hostility and vulgarity
C. contentment and peace
D. purity and love
E. melancholy and acceptance
6. It can be inferred that, for the author, the poetry of Hardy is
A. something with which he is not entirely comfortable
B. a temporary interest soon supplanted by other poetry
C. a secret obsession that he is reluctant to confess
D. his first poetic love that time has not entirely erased
E. a childlike passion

7. The author uses all of the following to make his point except
A. metaphor
B. personal experience
C. generalization
D. classical allusions
E. comparison
8. The poetry quoted (lines 28-34) is most likely included as
A. extracts from the authors own poetry
B. extracts from Hardys poetry
C. examples of poetry that appeals to the unhappy adolescent
D. the type of poetry much admired by all poetry lovers
E. examples of schoolboy poetry
9. It can be inferred that Edward Thomas
A. was once held in high esteem by the author
B. was a better poet than Hardy
C. was writing in 1924
D. had views opposed to Eliot
E. wrote poetry similar to that of Hardy
10. The author mentions Carl Sandburg (line 52) as
A. an example of a modern poet
B. an example of a traditional figure
C. having a poetic appearance
D. a poet to appeal to young people
E. resembling his father
11. The author qualifies his appreciation of Hardy by pointing out that Hardys poetic techniques
were

A. sometimes unmoving
B. not always deeply felt
C. occasionally lacking in variety
D. always emotional
E. irrelevant to certain readers
12. The author feels that Hardys physical appearance suggested
A. deep and lasting feelings
B. paternal values
C. careworn old age
D. a contemporary writer
E. fatherly concern
I have yet to meet a poetry-lover under thirty who was
not an introvert, or an introvert who was not unhappy in
adolescence. At school, particularly, maybe, if, as in my own
case, it is a boarding school, he sees the extrovert successful,
5 happy, and good and himself unpopular or neglected; and what is
hardest to bear is not unpopularity, but the consciousness that it
is deserved, that he is grubby and inferior and frightened and
dull. Knowing no other kind of society than the contingent, he
imagines that this arrangement is part of the eternal scheme of
10 things, that he is doomed to a life of failure and envy. It is not till
he grows up, till years later he runs across the heroes of his
school days and finds them grown commonplace and sterile, that
he realizes that the introvert is the lucky one, the best adapted to
an industrial civilization the collective values of which are so
15 infantile that he alone can grow, who has educated his fantasies
and learned how to draw upon the resources of his inner life. At
the time, however, his adolescence is unpleasant enough. Unable
to imagine a society in which he would feel at home, he turns
away from the human to the nonhuman: homesick he will seek,
20 not his mother, but mountains or autumn woods, and the
growing life within him will express itself in a devotion to music
and thoughts upon mutability and death. Art for him will be
something infinitely precious, pessimistic, and hostile to life. If it
speaks of love it must be love frustrated, for all success seems to
25 him noisy and vulgar; if it moralizes, it must counsel a stoic
resignation, for the world he knows is well content with itself and
will not change.

Deep as first love and wild with all regret,

O death in life, the days that are no more.
Now more than ever seems it sweet to die
To cease upon the midnight with no pain.
35 That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is
the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson, Keats,
Swinburne, Housman or another, awakens a passion of imitation
and an affectation which no subsequent refinement or
sophistication of his taste can entirely destroy. In my own case it
40 was Hardy in the summer of 1923; for more than a year I read no
one else and I do not think that I was ever without one volume or
another or the beautifully produced Wessex edition in my hands:
I smuggled them into class, carried them about on Sunday walks,
and took them up to the dormitory to read in the early morning,
45 though they were far too unwieldy to be read in bed with
comfort. In the autumn of 1924 there was a palace revolution
after which he had to share his kingdom with Edward Thomas,
until finally they were both defeated by Elliot at the battle of
Oxford in 1926.
50 Besides serving as the archetype of the Poetic, Hardy was
also an expression of the contemporary scene. He was both my
Keats and my Sandburg.
To begin with, he looked like my father: that broad
unpampered moustache, bald forehead, and deeply lined
55 sympathetic face belonged to that other world of feeling and
sensation. Here was a writer whose emotions, if sometimes
monotonous and sentimental in expression, would be deeper and
more faithful than my own, and whose attachment to the earth
would be more secure and observant.
Adapted from an article written by W H Auden
A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a
street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no
small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the
pavement was the place for pedestrians, but she replied: 'I'm going
5 to walk where I like. We've got liberty now.' It did not occur
to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the pedestrian to
walk down the middle of the road, then the end of such liberty
would be universal chaos. Everybody would be getting in
everybody else's way and nobody would get anywhere.
10 Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.

There is a danger of the world getting liberty-drunk in

these days like the old lady with the basket, and it is just as well
to remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means. It means
that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the
15 liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the policeman,
say, at Piccadilly Circus steps into the middle of the road and
puts out his hand, he is the symbol not of tyranny, but of liberty.
You may not think so. You may, being in a hurry, and seeing
your car pulled up by this insolence of office, feel that your
20 liberty has been outraged. How dare this fellow interfere with
your free use of the public highway? Then, if you are a
reasonable person, you will reflect that if he did not interfere with
you, he would interfere with no one, and the result would be that
Piccadilly Circus would be a maelstrom that you would never
25 cross at all. You have submitted to a curtailment of private liberty
in order that you may enjoy a social order which makes your
liberty a reality.
Liberty is not a personal affair only, but a social
contract. It is an accommodation of interests. In matters which do
30 not touch anybody else's liberty, of course, I may be as free as I
like. If I choose to go down the road in a dressing-gown who
shall say me nay? You have liberty to laugh at me, but I have
liberty to be indifferent to you. And if I have a fancy for dyeing
my hair, or waxing my moustache (which heaven forbid), or
35 wearing an overcoat and sandals, or going to bed late or getting
up early, I shall follow my fancy and ask no man's permission. I
shall not inquire of you whether I may eat mustard with my
mutton. And you will not ask me whether you may follow this
religion or that, whether you may prefer Ella Wheeler Wilcox to
40 Wordsworth, or champagne to shandy.
In all these and a thousand other details you and I please
ourselves and ask no one's leave. We have a whole kingdom in
which we rule alone, can do what we choose, be wise or
ridiculous, harsh or easy, conventional or odd. But directly we
45 step out of that kingdom, our personal liberty of action becomes
qualified by other people's liberty. I might like to practice on the
trombone from midnight till three in the morning. If I went on to
the top of Everest to do it, I could please myself, but if I do it in
my bedroom my family will object, and if I do it out in the streets
50 the neighbors will remind me that my liberty to blow the
trombone must not interfere with their liberty to sleep in quiet.
There are a lot of people in the world, and I have to
accommodate my liberty to their liberties.

We are all liable to forget this, and unfortunately we are much

55 more conscious of the imperfections of others in this respect than
of our own. A reasonable consideration for the rights or feelings
of others is the foundation of social conduct.
It is in the small matters of conduct, in the observance of
the rule of the road, that we pass judgment upon ourselves, and
60 declare that we are civilized or uncivilized. The great moments of
heroism and sacrifice are rare. It is the little habits of
commonplace intercourse that make up the great sum of life and
sweeten or make bitter the journey.
Adapted from an essay by George Orwell
1. The author might have stated his rule of the road as
A. do not walk in the middle of the road
B. follow the orders of policemen
C. do not behave inconsiderately in public
D. do what you like in private
E. liberty is more important than anarchy
2. The authors attitude to the old lady in paragraph one is
A. condescending
B. intolerant
C. objective
D. sardonic
E. supportive
3. The sentence It means....curtailed (lines 13-15) is an example of
A. hyperbole
B. clich
C. simile
D. paradox
E. consonance
4. Which sentence best sums up the authors main point?

A. There is a danger....lines 11-13

B. A reasonable.... lines 56-57
C. It is in the small matters....lines 58-60
D. The great moments....lines 60-61
E. It is the little....lines 61-63
5. A situation analogous to the insolence of office described in paragraph 2 would be
A. a teacher correcting grammar errors
B. an editor shortening the text of an article
C. a tax inspector demanding to see someones accounts
D. an army office giving orders to a soldier
E. a gaoler locking up a prisoner
6. Qualified (line 46) most nearly means
A. accredited
B. improved
C. limited
D. stymied
E. educated
7. The author assumes that he may be as free as he likes in
A. all matters of dress and food
B. any situation which does not interfere with the liberty of others
C. anything that is not against the law
D. his own home
E. public places as long as no one sees him
8. In the sentence We are all liable.... (lines 54-56) the author is
A. pointing out a general weakness
B. emphasizing his main point
C. countering a general misconception

D. suggesting a remedy
E. modifying his point of view
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