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This checklist attempts to identify and to determine the reading tvterjjfreading students. The teacher can
use the results obtained to make the teacmni tudents and of literature more relevant to the needs and
reading baCkgmund of t e 5 he; In addition, with an understanding of the reading taste of the students,
the teac. 'ng and learnmg

can design better and appropriate tasks which will make the teach:

of literature meaningful.

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GRADE and SECTION: TEACHER:

Encircle all that applies to you. 1. What types of stories do you love to read?

mYsteries science fiction fantasy romance history current events sports war stories adventures
biographies short stories plays

novels poems

others (please specify)

2. What reading materials do you have at home? newspapers (tabloids) newspapers (broadsheets) comic
books dictionaries novels (English) encyclopedias

novels (Tagalog) children’s books

others (please specify)

3. Where do you feel more comfortable to read?

classroom bedroom library living room playground kitchen mall garden park others (please specify) 4.
How often do you read? Very Often Often Occasional Never

5. How much do you love to read? To a Great Extent Above Average Average Below Average

6. When do yen usually read better?

7. How do you perceive library books?

8. W11 1 ' ' at are your perceptlons and Vlews about literary readings?

Challenge/Thy MM

This part is mainly an assessment tool which attempts to determine both mastered and least mastered
skills. Also, it can be used to gauge the students’ level of learning with regard to literary concepts and
analysis. The results of this can help teachers to point out the areas of literature which need to be
highlighted and integrated in the course of the delivery of lessons.

NAME: DATE:
GRADE and SECTION: TEACHER:

I. Write NAKS if the veracity of the statement is incontestable and NYEK if the statement expresses a false
idea. Write your answers before the number.

I. Literature teaches the significance of life.

2. Localcolor refers to the technique in writing by which native or indigenous symbols or images are
integrated in the context of the literary text.

3. In poetry, the one speaking in the lines of the poem is known as the persona.

4. Poetry is a type of literature which can be characterized of its ordinariness of form and structure and
strong resemblance to man’s pattern of everyday speech.

5. An essay tells a story as its prime purpose. 6. Literature is both an art and a form of communication.

7. "Dulce”refers to excellence of literary form which relates to the idea that literature

must have aesthetic value or sense while “utile”refers to what literature can offer to its readers in effect.

8. Drama refers to the story being acted and presented on stage while play refers to the text in which the
story sequence appears.

9. The essay “What is an Educated Filipino” by F rancisco Benitez is an example of a critical essay.
10. Jose Garcia Villa was regarded as the master of local color in Philippine Literature

in English.

11. Literature mirrors and highlights significant human experiences.

The timelessness of thought and of idea relates to the notion that a work ofliterature

l 2. must reveal a theme and must reflect a condition which is applicable to the world a.

a whole. 13. A flat character is known to be dynamic and developing.

Exposition means the action of untying of events built upon in the rising action of

l 4. the plot; it refers to the final outcome of the main complication in a play or story.

15. A novel is a kind of a lictional prose work which has a single complication and may

involve few characters.

16. A work of fiction is said to be drawn from the author's imagination.

The word “essay" was derived from a term which means attergs by Michael de

Montaigne.
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18. Language is the prime medium ofliterature.

19. Powerlessness and helplessness were the predominant patriarchal image revealed in

the short story “Footnote to Youth”.

20. The villain is a character in a fictional work who always Opposes the principal

character.