Ti Dakkel nga Aba

Week 11. Author: Rosemarie Lofranco Tatay Gardo is given a gabi plant by the barangay officials as a prize for having the best home garden. He plants the gabi plant and it grows. But when the time comes for it to be harvested, he could not pull the gabi plant up. He asks help from his wife, their three children and their pet dog. They pull and pull and, finally, out comes the big gabi plant. The gabi plant was so big that they are able to cook an entire pot of gabi stew and shares it with other members of their family. 2017 by U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID) Produced for the Department of Education under the USAID Basa Pilipinas Activity Basa Pilipinas is USAID/Philippines’ flagship basic education activity in support of the Philippine Government’s early grade reading program. Implemented in close collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd), Basa Pilipinas aims to improve the reading skills for at least one million early grade students in Filipino, English and two mother tongue languages (Ilokano and Sinugbuanong Binisaya).This will be achieved by improving reading instruction, reading delivery systems, and access to quality reading materials. Adapted works (e.g., stories, poems, songs, illustrations, photographs, etc.) included in this storybook were used with permission from the copyright owners. Every effort has been exerted to locate and seek permission to use these materials from their respective copyright owners. The publisher does not represent nor claim ownership over them.