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CTET 1 Mar 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 132

Topic: Reading skills

Q132

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 ____.

  1. (1) explicitly discuss and memorize moral values of the stories
  2. (2) develop a culture of readingCorrect answer
  3. (3) make students memorize more stories
  4. (4) keep students busy for a long time while the teacher completes her pending work

Solution.

CBSE answer: (2)

Answer: (2) develop a culture of reading

  1. A classroom library gives children easy access to many books.
  2. When they choose and read stories freely, reading becomes a pleasure and a habit.
  3. This is what building a reading culture means in NCF 2005.

Trap: (1) and (3) turn stories into memorisation, which kills interest; (4) misuses the library to keep children busy.