This study focuses on the core values developed in a seventh-grade literary texts, which paved the way to the suggestion of a framework for effective values integration in literary texts. Through content analysis, interviews, and surveys, it was discovered that four core values are being developed in texts: maka-Diyos (love for God), Makatao (love for fellow men), maka-kalikasan (love for nature), and maka-bansa (love for the country); these core values are well-presented, and three of them are sometimes cultivated together depending on the topic being discussed. Research revealed through the significant response of the teachers that its cultivation is essential in integrating the text; it has a greater effect; it has an enormous impact on the student’s life, and the use of different methods and putting the teacher himself in the situation are methods of how to improve the teaching of values. The researchers recommended adopting the framework to develop and strengthen the educational program for values integration in Filipino 7, as a major step toward advancing transformational education in the country.