A reporter never prints what they cannot back up. For the next forty questions you are on the desk — reading between the lines, describing exactly, and refusing to write a word you cannot support. Every answer comes with the reasoning, so a wrong one still teaches you something.
Assignment I
Main Idea & Theme
A story never says "the theme is ______." You have to catch it. Follow the 4 C's and it cannot get away.
Memory trick
The 4 C's
Characters · Context · Conflict · Conclusion
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Topic vs. theme — the classic trap
Topic
Theme / main idea
One or two words. "Daydreaming."
A full sentence about life. "Living mindfully in the present keeps us from losing what we already have."
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0 / 5Answer all five to earn press pass I — Theme Desk.
Assignment II
Drawing Conclusions
The text will not hand you the answer. It hands you clues — and you already know things. Put the two together.
Memory trick
Know + Show
What you already know + what the text shows = your conclusion
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The rule that keeps you honest
If you cannot point to a line in the text that supports it, it is a guess, not a conclusion. Be ready to finish this sentence every time: "I think this because the text says…"
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0 / 5Answer all five to earn press pass II — Evidence Desk.
Assignment III
Inferring Purpose, Message, Audience & Context
Four questions the author never answers out loud: what happened around this, who is it for, what is it telling me, and why was it written at all?
Memory trick
C · A · M · P
Context · Audience · Message · Purpose — set up CAMP around any text
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The three common purposes
1 To inform2 To persuade3 To entertain
Your workbook lists three more the quiz may still use: to describe, to explain, to argue. A text can have more than one purpose at once — a funny story that also teaches a lesson entertains and informs.
Audience, straight from your reviewer
→A children's story → children
→An article about classroom rules → students
→A guide about caring for newborn babies → parents
→A recipe for students → young cooks and students
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0 / 6Answer all six to earn press pass III — Interpretation Desk.
Assignment IV
Adjectival Phrases
Not every group of words is doing the same job. Some describe the action. These ones point straight back at a noun.
Memory trick
Take a N.A.P.
Noun first · Ask "which one?" · the Phrase is your answer
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Added by me — the mix-up that costs marks
Your reviewer does not cover this, but it is the one that catches people out. Both are groups of words, and both often start with the same little word. The difference is what they describe.
Type
Describes
Answers
Example
Adjectival
a noun or pronoun
Which one?
The man in the barong is my uncle.
Adverbial
a verb (the action)
How? When? Where?
She sang with great feeling.
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0 / 6Answer all six to earn press pass IV — Copy Desk.
Assignment V
Making Generalizations
One person is a fact. A whole group is a generalization. Climb the ladder in the right order or you will invent a rule the evidence never gave you.
Memory trick
3 Clues → 1 Rule
Specific ideas → common idea → generalization. Always that direction.
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Added by me — the three cousins
These three get mixed up constantly, because all of them go beyond what the text literally says.
Skill
What you produce
Example
Conclusion
A judgment about this person or event
"Christine loves adventure."
Inference
An unstated meaning behind the text
"The author admires her courage."
Generalization
A broad statement about a group
"Most campers love the outdoors."
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0 / 5Answer all five to earn press pass V — Research Desk.
Assignment VI
Survey Forms & Personal Data
Every reporter collects information about people. The good ones know exactly which questions they have no business asking.
Memory trick
Who you are + Where to reach you
Name, age, birthday, gender · address, contact number
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File your answers
0 / 5Answer all five to earn press pass VI — Public Desk.
Front page · Final assignment
All Six Skills, One Story
A story you have never read before. Every skill from every assignment, at the same time. This is the one that proves you learned it.
The Barangay Bulletin · read carefully
Pupils Turn Bottles Into Books
Barangay Maligaya · community desk
Every Saturday morning, the Grade 6 pupils of Barangay Maligaya meet at the covered court with sacks in their hands. They collect plastic bottles from the streets near the market, wash them, and sell them to a junk shop on Rizal Avenue.
In four months, the class with the blue tarpaulin banner has raised enough to buy twenty-two used textbooks for their school library.
"We were tired of sharing one book among five," said Mira Santos, 11, the pupil who started the drive.
Their teacher, Mr. Delfin, now plans to invite other sections to join. "If one section can do this," he said, "imagine what six can do."
0 / 8Answer all eight to earn press pass ★ — Editor-in-Chief.
Final tally · your record
0/40
Newsroom Intern
Everyone starts at the intern desk. Open assignment I and tap the source cards first.
Screenshot your tally and send it to your teacher or your parents — a press pass only counts if somebody sees it.
Night before the quiz · one screen
Six tricks. That is the whole reviewer.
The 4 C's
Characters, Context, Conflict, Conclusion → gives you the theme.
Know + Show
What you know + what the text shows = a conclusion.