🎯 Learning outcomes
- Read passages of 150–250 words with fluency and understanding
- Answer factual and inferential questions in complete sentences
- Find meanings of new words from context
Before you start: Reading short stories.
📖 Explanation
Reading comprehension now involves longer passages: stories, descriptions and simple information texts (about animals, festivals, places).
Read once for the overall idea, then read questions and find answers. Inferential questions (क्यों? / ఎందుకు?) need thinking from clues.
Guess new word meanings from context, then check in a dictionary (शब्दकोश / నిఘంటువు).
Passage: 'चिल्का झील ओडिशा में है। यहाँ सर्दियों में दूर-दूर से पक्षी आते हैं।' Why do birds come? Inference: to escape the cold in their homelands.
✗ Answers must be copied word for word from the passage
✓ Answers should use your own words in complete sentences, using key words from the passage.
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Read a short passage about a festival in your language and make a five-question quiz for a partner.
✍️ Question bank with answers
Tap an option to check multiple-choice answers. Open “Answer” or “Marking points” for the others.
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In the Chilika passage, where is the lake?
Answer
A. Odisha
The passage says ओडिशा.
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'ఎందుకు' asks
Answer
A. why
ఎందుకు means why.
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A dictionary in Hindi is called
Answer
D. शब्दकोश
शब्दकोश lists words and meanings.
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When do birds come to Chilika?
Answer
in winter (सर्दियों में)
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What is 'నిఘంటువు'?
Answer
a dictionary
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Write two questions about a passage you read: one factual, one inferential.
Marking points
- One what/where question
- One why/how question
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Read a passage about an animal and write a short summary in four sentences in your language.
Marking points
- Main facts about the animal
- Own words
- Complete sentences
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A word in the passage is new. What two things can you do?
Answer
- Guess from context
- Check in a dictionary
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Draw a 5W chart (who, what, where, when, why) for a passage.
Answer
Five boxes filled correctly
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