NCERT Textbook: Picture Reading

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Mridang
Note to the teacher
• Give children enough time to observe the picture. Encourage all 
children to speak and answer the questions, even if they speak 
in their home language. Help them ??nd English words.
Chapter 2
Picture Reading Picture Reading
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Mridang
Note to the teacher
• Give children enough time to observe the picture. Encourage all 
children to speak and answer the questions, even if they speak 
in their home language. Help them ??nd English words.
Chapter 2
Picture Reading Picture Reading
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Mridang
• What do you see?
• How many children are there in the picture?
• What are the children doing?
• How are children having fun?
• What games do you play?
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8
Mridang
Note to the teacher
• Give children enough time to observe the picture. Encourage all 
children to speak and answer the questions, even if they speak 
in their home language. Help them ??nd English words.
Chapter 2
Picture Reading Picture Reading
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Mridang
• What do you see?
• How many children are there in the picture?
• What are the children doing?
• How are children having fun?
• What games do you play?
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Mridang
Let us read
OUT! OUT!
It was a holiday. Jeet and Babli were playing. They played 
many games. Both of them skipped the rope. They played 
hide and seek.
 Babli and 
Jeet decided to 
play ‘bat and 
ball’. 
Jeet got ready to 
throw the ball.
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8
Mridang
Note to the teacher
• Give children enough time to observe the picture. Encourage all 
children to speak and answer the questions, even if they speak 
in their home language. Help them ??nd English words.
Chapter 2
Picture Reading Picture Reading
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9
Mridang
• What do you see?
• How many children are there in the picture?
• What are the children doing?
• How are children having fun?
• What games do you play?
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Mridang
Let us read
OUT! OUT!
It was a holiday. Jeet and Babli were playing. They played 
many games. Both of them skipped the rope. They played 
hide and seek.
 Babli and 
Jeet decided to 
play ‘bat and 
ball’. 
Jeet got ready to 
throw the ball.
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Mridang
 Jeet threw the ball. Babli hit the ball.
 The ball 
went into 
Mohit’s garden. 
But his house 
was locked. 
They could not 
??nd the ball. 
So the game 
stopped.
New words
skipped | threw | courtyard | gathered | brought |picked
Sight words
This | a | how | also | they | after | and | of
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8
Mridang
Note to the teacher
• Give children enough time to observe the picture. Encourage all 
children to speak and answer the questions, even if they speak 
in their home language. Help them ??nd English words.
Chapter 2
Picture Reading Picture Reading
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Mridang
• What do you see?
• How many children are there in the picture?
• What are the children doing?
• How are children having fun?
• What games do you play?
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10
Mridang
Let us read
OUT! OUT!
It was a holiday. Jeet and Babli were playing. They played 
many games. Both of them skipped the rope. They played 
hide and seek.
 Babli and 
Jeet decided to 
play ‘bat and 
ball’. 
Jeet got ready to 
throw the ball.
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Mridang
 Jeet threw the ball. Babli hit the ball.
 The ball 
went into 
Mohit’s garden. 
But his house 
was locked. 
They could not 
??nd the ball. 
So the game 
stopped.
New words
skipped | threw | courtyard | gathered | brought |picked
Sight words
This | a | how | also | they | after | and | of
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Mridang
This time Babli picked the ball. Jeet picked the bat. Babli 
threw the ball. Jeet hit the ball hard. The ball opened up 
and scattered in the air! Babli jumped and caught a piece of 
rag. She jumped and shouted, “OUT! OUT!”
 Babli knew how to 
make a ball. They got 
a few rags, paper and 
wool.   
Babli also brought a 
piece of string. She 
rolled rags, paper and 
wool to make a ball. 
Then she tied the ball with a string. They liked the new ball. 
The game started again.
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