A teacher of class III gives her sudents unseen passage worksheets, writing tasks, picture description activities, recitation and storytelling by them across the term. She has recorded the performance of the learners to include in the overall performance assessment of the learners. This record of assessment is known as :
A child reads a storybook of her interest. This type of reading is referred to as :
Which of the following should not be the objective of reading stories at foundational stage ?
A child reads an unseen passage. He is expected to answer the questions that follow. This type of reading is referred to as :
Read the following statements about reading skills.
A. Reading is just the ability to decode.
B. Children learn to read through involvement in the act of reading.
Which of the above statements is/are True/False ?
In process writing approach, pre-writing is :
A classroom makes the learners notice language through various means, viz. on the wall, class library, audio and videos. This can be described as :
Given below are two statements, one marked as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option.
Assertion (A) : Language is an effective tool for communication.
Reason (R) : Language helps to convey social messages.
A teacher does actions which learners follow as directed and learners are not expected to speak or use language. What is this method known as ?
A teacher believes that free writing will help her students to strengthen their language skills. Free writing can be understood as writing that :
Which approach makes use of carefully selected and graded items ?
Which one of the following is a characteristic of the language disorder ‘Dyslexia’ ?
Which of the following principles of emerging literacy is not supported by Vygotsky ?
Comprehensible input includes :
The deductive approach to teaching grammar says we should first ___________.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 106 to 114) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
Lata stood outside the hall for a minute. Sunlight poured onto the stone steps. The edge of her middle finger was smeared with dark blue ink, and she looked at it, frowning. She was close to tears.
Other English students stood on the steps and chatted. A post-mortem of the paper was being held, and it was dominated by an optimistic and chubby girl who was ticking off on her fingers the various points she had answered correctly.
‘This is one paper I know I have done really well,’ she said. ‘Especially the ‘King Lear’ question. I think that the answer was ‘Yes’.’ Others were looking excited or depressed. Everyone agreed that several of the questions were far harder than they had needed to be. A knot of history students stood not far away, discussing their paper, which had been held simultaneously in the same building. One of them was the young man who had brought himself to Lata’s attention in the Imperial Book Depot, and he was looking a little worried. He had spent a great deal of time these last few months in extra-curricular activities — particularly cricket — and this had taken its toll upon his performance.
Lata walked to a bench beneath the gulmohar tree and sat down to collect herself. When she got home for lunch, she would be pestered with a hundred questions about how well she had done. She looked down at the red flowers that lay scattered at her feet. In her head, she could still hear the buzzing of the fly.
The young man, though he had been talking to his classmates, had noticed her walking down the steps. When she sat down on the far bench under the tree, he decided to have a word with her. He told his friends that he had to go home for lunch — that his father would be waiting for him — and hurried along the path past the gulmohar. As he came to the bench, he uttered an exclamation of surprise and stopped.
Why was Lata frowning ?
Which exam had Lata taken ?
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
A. Lata had done well in the examination.
B. She feared she would be asked how she had fared in the examination at home.
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
A. Some history students too were discussing their paper.
B. The young man too had not fared well in his exam.
‘... the young man who had brought himself to Lata’s attention ...’
Identify the clause in the underlined part of the sentence.
‘The edge of her middle finger ...’
Name the Part of Speech of the underlined word in the given sentence part.
‘... how well she had done.’
Identify the tense of the given expression.
‘A knot of history students ...’
What does ‘knot’ mean in this expression ?
‘A post-mortem of the paper was being held ...’
Identify the literary device used in the expression.
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 115 to 120) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
My mother twisted through and through
groaning on a mat
My father, sceptic, rationalist,
trying every curse and blessing,
powder, mixture, herb and hybrid.
He even poured a little paraffin
upon the bitten toe and put a match to it.
I watched the flame feeding on my mother
I watched the holy man perform the rites
to tame the poison with an incantation.
After twenty hours
it lost its sting.
. . . .
. . . .
. . . .
My mother only said
Thank God the scorpion picked on me
and spared my children.
Who is the narrator in the poem ?
What was the condition of the mother ?
By conviction, the father was ____________.
The mother thanked God for ____________.
Which literary device has been used in the expression : ‘to tame the poison’ ?
Which figure of speech is there in ‘the flame feeding on my mother’ ?
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 121 to 128) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
For a few days, no one knew where Venkatashami had gone. Enquiries revealed that he had run away with the Dombara girl. The leader of the troupe came to the Gowda to express his grief and went back to the camp. There was nothing that anyone could do. Four days later, a Gowda from a village some five miles away was passing this way, and he brought Venkatashami and left him at his parents’ house. The boy was burning with fever. It seems the girl was with him when he became ill. She had been taken home by her father and Venkatashami had been brought back seriously ill.
The boy did not recover from that illness. He was a handsome boy with an open face. Dark, yes, but attractive. The black of his skin, that of his eyes, and of his moustache were of three different shades. When he smiled, it was like a flash of lightning among the clouds. His body was so well-built, no hammer could break it. The fever that had caught hold of him seemed unwilling to let go of such a fine physique. They call the fever by the name typhoid now and can diagnose it in no time. But those days, nobody was aware of such things. All they knew was that something was wrong with the tongue. He was given the traditional medicines and kept on a local diet. A fortnight later, Venkatashami passed away. His delirious mind rambled and his talk was all about his meeting with the girl. Whenever he was conscious, he kept asking them to call her. It would have been all right if he had been married to her. His request would have been treated with understanding and sympathy, and she would have been sent for. But does one bring the girl who had led him astray to his bedside in these circumstances ?
Where had Venkatashami gone ?
When Venkatashami was brought back home, ____.
What was Venkatashami’s attitude towards the girl ?
What was Venkatashami’s final fate ?
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
A. The family was willing to marry Venkatashami to the Dombara girl.
B. Venkatashami came home on his own accord.
What literary device has been used in the expression ‘... like a flash of lightning among the clouds’ ?
Identify the tense of the given expression : ‘... led him astray.’
Choose the word nearest in meaning to ‘ramble’.
Read the following statements.
A. Writing experiences promote reading comprehension.
B. Writing helps in developing vocabulary knowledge.
Which of the above statements is/are true for importance of writing in early years ?
A teacher of class III wants to conduct a pre-writing activity as a part of the writing task assigned to students. Which of the following activity cannot be conducted as a pre-writing activity ?
A reading activity in which learners hear or read different parts of a text, then exchange information with others in order to complete a task, is referred to as :
Navomita, a teacher of class II, has maintained a classroom library and she encourages the students to read stories.
This practice should be followed to ____.
Which of the following is true for emergent literacy ?
‘Peer review’ is understood as an important strategy for improving students’ writing process. The purpose of ‘peer review’ is to :
Read the following statements :
A. Dialect is a variety of a language, spoken in one part of a country.
B. Languages have written literature but dialects have oral tradition.
Which of these statements is/are linguistically correct about language and dialect ?
“Understands and uses new words” can be a rubric for assessing :
A teacher of class III asks the children to draw a story as she narrates it. Through this activity, which language skill can be assessed ?
Which of the following about language development is supported by Piaget ?
The basic premise of Vygotskian principles does not include :
The idea that ‘The language provides the framework for our thoughts’ is supported by :
Which of the following is the characteristic of the learning disorder ‘Dysgraphia’ ?
Given below are two statements, one marked as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option.
Assertion (A) : Learners of second language take more time to develop basic interpersonal communicative skills than cognitive academic language proficiency.
Reason (R) : Conversational proficiency is more context-embedded than academic proficiency.
Which of the following is true for nature of reading ?
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 144 to 150) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
The contacts between India and the western world which Chandragupta Maurya had established continued during the reign of his son, Bindusara. Ambassadors came to the court at Pataliputra from Ptolemy of Egypt and Antiochus, the son and successor of Seleucus Nicator of Western Asia. Ashoka, grandson of Chandragupta, added to these contacts, and India became in his time an important international centre, chiefly because of the rapid spread of Buddhism.
Ashoka succeeded to this great empire in about 273 BC. He had previously served as Viceroy in the North-Western province of which Taxila, the university centre, was the capital. Already the empire included the greater part of India and extended right into Central Asia. Only the South-East and a part of the South were beyond its sway. The old dream of uniting the whole of India under one supreme government fired Ashoka and forthwith he undertook the conquest of Kalinga on the east coast, which corresponds roughly with modern Orissa and part of Andhra. His armies triumphed in spite of the brave and obstinate resistance of the people of Kalinga. There was a terrible slaughter in the war, and when news of this reached Ashoka, he was stricken with remorse and disgusted with war. Unique among the victorious monarchs and captains in history, he decided to abandon warfare in the full tide of victory. The whole of India acknowledged his sway, except for the southern tip, and that tip was his for the taking. But he refrained from any further aggression, and his mind turned, under the influence of the Buddha’s gospel, to conquests and adventures in other fields.
Who was the immediate successor of Chandragupta Maurya ?
In the Mauryan period, what principal factor led to India opening up to the outside world ?
Before Ashoka, the Mauryan empire excluded ____.
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
A. After the Kalinga war, Ashoka became a pacifist.
B. Ashoka established his sway over the whole of India.
What does the underlined idiom in the expression ‘... that tip was his for the taking’ mean ?
Identify the Part of Speech of the underlined word in the expression ‘terrible slaughter’.
Choose the word nearest in meaning to ‘refrained’.