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Preface
Preface

Early Childhood & Care Education lays the foundation for a smooth transition to formal education

from Class 3 onwards. The over-all guiding principle of the ECCE stage is 'recognizing, identifying,
and fostering the unique capabilities of students' and 'achieving Foundational Literacy and
Numeracy'by Grade3. (NCF2022)

Keeping this in view, The Coral Bells Series has been designed to cater to the needs, abilities and
interest of children. The books introduce students to the basic skills of reading, writing, numeracy and
general awareness of life around them.The series has also been designed to develop various skills such

as association skills, visual discrimination, observation skills, comparison skills, and eye-hand
coordination.Itadherestotherecommendationof theNationalCurriculumFramework(NCF).

The Coral Bells series covers recognition and the sounds of letters in a phased manner with an activity
in between to test understanding. Sight reading of common words has been introduced with
illustrations for children to read with ease. Rhymes and stories give children the opportunity to recite

and dramatize to strengthen their speaking skills and self-confidence. Ample opportunities are
provided for developing listening skills, speaking skills, reading readiness and writing readiness
skills.

Listening Skills: Activities and worksheets for sound discrimination and comprehension have been
compiled

Speaking Skills: Opportunities for conversation, rhymes, storytelling, dramatization, and picture
readinghavebeenprovided

Reading readiness activities for sound discrimination, visual coordination and discrimination, and

sightreadinghavebeenincludedforchildrentomakereadinginterestingandcomfortable.

For writing readiness, pre-writing patterns precede writing of letters and words. Activities for fine
muscle development and eye-hand coordination such as joining the dots and mazes have been

provided.
Arrow - Coral Bells - English-Nursery theCourseBook.
The Practice book has more rhymes, stories, activities and worksheets to reinforce the skills learnt in

The Teacher's Manual serves as a teacher training tool. It helps the teacher to navigate the course
with expert advice and support. It enables teachers to take into the classroom, the transactional process
andthelearningresourcessuggestedby theNCF.

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