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CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 66

Topic: Pedagogy of EVS

Q66

There are many poems related to the environment in the textbooks of Environmental Studies. The teacher should also ask the children to create poems. Which one of the following process skills is mainly developed by writing poems ?

  1. (1) Creative expressionCorrect answer
  2. (2) Motor skills
  3. (3) Learning skills
  4. (4) Convergent skill

Solution.

CBSE answer: (1)

Answer: (1) Creative expression

  1. Writing a poem asks the child to put feelings and observations about nature in her own words.
  2. This is expression and creativity, one of the process skills listed for EVS.
  3. Motor skills relate to body movement; convergent skill looks for one fixed answer, which a poem does not have.

Trap: (3) Learning skills is too general to name the skill a poem builds.