Ti Tagtagainep ni Mat

Week 6. Author: May-Ann Grace Samputon Mat is a healthy boy who just loves to lie down all day. One day, his mother asks him to help her fetch some water. Mat pretends that his hand and feet are in pain so he does not have to do what his mother asks. His mother becomes worried and asks him to go back to sleep. While sleeping, Mat dreams that a large snake is chasing him. He wants to climb a tree but he has no hands and feet. The snake is about to get him but Mat wakes up! He wakes up scared and crying and apologize to his mother for lying. From then on, he always helps his mother do chores around the house. 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.