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3. Solving riddles

4. Make-believe play / role play / dramatics
Notes
5. Excursions and walks

Reading, Writing and Number Readiness
Reading Readiness

For reading readiness, activities and experiences should be provided to children
to prepare them to learn the skill of reading later. Activities like matching similar
objects, picture conversation, spotting the odd one or the identical one are some
such. Children should be given opportunities to listen and discriminate between
different sounds as well as identifying the beginning and end sounds of words.
Some activities are:

a) Visual discrimination (Recognising differences in shapes/sizes/colours etc.)

b) Sound discrimination (Recognising differences in sounds)

c) Development of observation skill and memory (Recall of objects seen)

d) Classification of objects (according to size, features etc.)

e) Sequential thinking

f) Development of vocabulary

Writing Readiness
For writing readiness, the teacher should provide activities that help in the
development of eye-hand coordination in children. Some activities are:

a) Clay modelling

b) Colouring within enclosed space/picture

c) Drawing on slate/floor

d) Tracing

e) Copying forms

f) Joining dots

g) Drawing zig-zag; straight lines

Number Readiness
Before teaching numbers, it is necessary that children be given specific activities/
experiences related to number work, like:

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