Pre- Reading Whilst-Reading Post Reading
BLUE-PRINT OF READING COMPREHENSION PROTOTYPE TRY-OUT
Students: Junior High School, Grade VIII, semester 2 A. Standard of Competence
11. Students understand the meanings of functional written texts and short essay in the form of recount and narrative texts related to the social
environtment. B. Basic Competency
11.3 Students are able to respon to the meaning and rhetoric step found in short functional written texts formed narrative.
Genre Indicators
Item Number Total
Narrative Finding the main idea and topic 7,17,28,42
4 Identifying the purpose of the
narrative text 1,27,35,18
4 Identifying generic structure of the
text 19,40
2 Finding stated and unstated details of
the text 2,3,4,9,10,11,12,15,
20,21,22,25,29,30, 32,38,43,44,47,
48,49. 20
Deducting the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items
5,13,14,24,31,33,39 , 46,
8 Identifying references
6,23,37,45 4
Identifying moral value of the text 8,16,26,34,41,50 6
Total 50
PROTOTYPE TRY-OUT READING COMPREHENSION
Class : VIII D
Time : 60 minutes
Choose the best answer by crossing a, b, c, or d on the answer sheet Read the following text to answer questions number 1 to 8
The Ant and the Dove
One hot day, an ant was searching for some water. After walking around
for some time, she came to a spring. To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell into the water.
She could have drowned if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly plucked off a leaf and dropped
it into the water near the struggling ant. The ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry ground.
Just at that time, a hunter nearby was throwing out his net towards the dove. Guessing what he was about to do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel.
Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net. The dove was quick to fly away to safety.
Adapted from http:www.kidsworldfun.comshortstories_php 1.
What is the purpose of the text? a.
To entertain the readers b.
To inform the readers about ant c.
To describe the job of a hunter d.
To describe a dove 2.
What did the hunter do to the dove? a.
He was hoping to eat it Number 1 is removed