I OLYMPIAD OF READING COMPREHENSION

Salvation Army School

GOALS
• Contribute to improving the level of reading comprehension at the Salvation Army school.
• Encourage students to practice reading as a source of knowledge, information and entertainment.
• Generate ties of friendship and cooperation between students, teachers, parents and school guardians.

RULES OF THE OLYMPIAD

1. OF THE ORGANIZATION
1.1. The Reading Comprehension Olympiad is part of the annual program of activities of the CRA Learning Resource
Center, which takes place during the school year.
1.2. The organizing committee will be made up of the Head of the Technical Pedagogical Unit and the CRA team
(CRA Coordinator and person in charge).

2. OF THE PARTICIPANTS
2.1 Students from the 3rd to 8th basic year of our school may compete.
2.2 The head teacher of each course will be responsible for choosing and preparing the students chosen to
participate in the reading comprehension olympiad. The maximum number of participants is 5 students per course.
2.3 The competing students will take a single test on the date and time indicated by the organizing committee.

3. REGISTRATION
3.1 Participation in the 2017 Reading Comprehension Olympiad is free of charge.
3.2 Registration will take place from June 18 to June 23, in the CRA library from 10:00 a.m. Until 12:00 hrs. Filling
out a registration form with the requested data ( it is mandatory to enter the IQ of all participating students ).
3.3 The commission will publish the list of final participants on the Facebook of the CRA library along with their head
teacher.

4. CONDUCT OF THE EXAM

4.1 The exam will be held in the CRA library on Friday, August 25 of this year. The start of the test will be at 10:00
am and participants will enter at 9:30 am
4.2 The test will have a number of questions and duration according to the following scheme:
Comprehensive
courses Reading analysis Duration
reading

From 3rd to 8th basic

10 questions 10 questions 90 minutes
year

Reading Comprehension Olympiad Bases

4.3 To enter to take the test, the participant must carry:
• #2B pencil, eraser and sharpener.

5. QUALIFICATION AND PUBLICATION OF RESULTS

5.1 The qualification will be carried out taking into account the following:
Answer Correct In white Incorrect
Score 5 points 0 points 0 points

5.2 Answer cards that present errors in the marking of their answer will be graded with a zero mark (0).
5.3 Qualification and publication will take place on August 25 at 7:00 pm, in the CRA and on the Library's Facebook.
5.4 The winners will be THE PARTICIPATING TEAMS of each course according to results.
5.4 The results of the exams are final and no claim will be accepted in this regard.

6. ABOUT THE AWARD

6.1 The winning teams will be those that occupy the first three places in each course. In the event of a tie, the
delivery times of the answer cards will be taken into account; the prizes are detailed below:

First place for team Second place for team Third place by team
• 5 Gold Medals • 5 Silver Medals • 5 Bronze Medals
• 5 Diplomas of • 5 Diplomas of • 5 Diplomas of
Honor Honor Honor
• 5 children's • 5 children's • 5 children's
reading books. reading books. reading books.
• 5 Mp4 • 5 Pairs of wireless • 5 Pairs of wireless
headphones headphones

6.2 The awards ceremony will take place on August 27 in the central event of each day, if necessary.

7. COMPLEMENTARY PROVISION
Any situation not foreseen in the organization will be resolved by the organizing committee.

FIRST CYCLE
3rd BASIC
COMPREHENSIVE READING

FABLE “THE LIAR SHEPHERD”

 Once upon a time there was a very joking and lying shepherd. Every day, when he
returned home, after having taken his flock to pasture, he would run into the town shouting: -
The wolf is coming! The wolf is coming! Upon hearing the screams, all the inhabitants went
into their houses, scared to death. And they stayed locked up there until they heard the
shepherd again:
- Ha ha ha! Is not true! It was just a joke! Fools!

And every day the villagers looked grumpily at the shepherd who always walked away
laughing. Every day... Until... Do you know what happened? One day, like so many others, the
shepherd ran back to town. He shouted as much or more than on other occasions: - The wolf
is coming! The wolf is coming! But this time he ran faster than normal and also shouted louder
than normal... However, the townspeople did not pay any attention to him, already fed up with
the shepherd having deceived them so many times... And do you know how it all ended?
Clear! This time it was true that the wolf was coming. And since no one in the town paid
attention to him, the shepherd was left without sheep, because the wolf ate them all.

READING COMPREHENSION

Comprehensive reading is one where the reader interprets the entire

contents of the text. Where you also acquire greater knowledge and
your own thinking.

What does the text say?

1) What does the shepherd do every day after taking his flock to pasture?
2) How do the townspeople react when they hear his screams?
3) Why does the shepherd always walk away laughing?
4) Why one day did the townspeople not pay any attention to him?
5) What expressions in the text indicate that that day was different from the others?
6) In the end, what happened to the sheep?

7) Write if it is true or false:

A) The pastor was a joker and a liar. _______

B) The inhabitants, upon hearing the screams, left their houses. _______
C) The shepherd always walked away sad. ______
D) The shepherd was left without sheep, because the wolf ate them all. _______

How do you say it?

8) According to the fable The Lying Shepherd,

Who do these qualities refer to?

Dangerous – innocent – joker – fierce – bad-tempered – liar

THE SHEPHERD: joker….

THE HABITANTS:…..

THE WOLF:….. –

Make three sentences, one with each character and a corresponding quality.

For example:

The pastor is a joker because… ______________________________________

The habitants… __________________________________________________

The wolf… ________________________________________________________

9) Choose the sentence that best summarizes the moral of the fable:

A) Nobody believes a liar, even if he tells the truth.

B) The more lies, the more friends.

ANALYTICAL READING

Analytical reading, therefore, is the previous step to the development

of critical thinking. Only by understanding a text in its entirety,
disentangling the implicit message from the content beyond the
literal, is it possible to evaluate its assertions and form an informed
judgment.

Now, what do you think?

10) Do you think the pastor's attitude is correct?

11) What happens to you for not telling the truth?
12) What would you do to make the townspeople believe the pastor again?
13) Have you ever acted as the reading shepherd? Explain how you felt on this occasion.