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As regards the lay-out of the book, it is divided into two parts. Contents of the first part cover the complete Hindi alphabet and counting up to one hundred-the subject matter earmarked for coching to the nursery classes, comparable to the LKG and UKG syllabus. The alphabet is taught in pictorial form and the sound system of letters is explained by giving the examples of simple words in English. Each letter of the elphabet is presented in bold form in Devanagri script, accompanied by its Roman version to illustrate its Hindi pronunciation, and demonstrated by a picture, with its identification being given in all the three versions-Hindi, Romans and English words. Two extra examples of words to illustrate the use and comprehension of the phonetic sound of each letter are cited. Part second of the book, which forms the bulk of its text, covers an extensive syllabus for the First Level or the First Primary Class. The contents of this portion are divided into thirty lessons. The first nine of these lessons are reserved for the teaching of sentence building, beginning with two-letter words and their bigger forms and small sentences. Beginning with lession-10, the subject matter of the book assumes a very interesting and innovative form of its presentation. In general, it is given in the form of small nursery rhymes and poems, profusely illustrated by beautiful multi-colored pictures and illustrations. The vocabulary and construction of sentences proceeds from simple to the complex. Whereas, the vocabulary grows from two and three letters to more elaborate form, the text grows from small phrases to complete sentences from the grammatical point of view, and thus composed of distinct subject, object and the verb respectively. The contents of each lession comprise a specific and exclusive treatment of some category, aspect or field of physical or human activity. They include among others, Important Actions, Names of Colors, Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables, Animals, besides the things of everyday use, as for instance, Things Around, Home, Classroom, Days of the week, reckoning of Time, and the understanding of Directions, Natural objects and phenimena, etc. The students are taught the names and functions of the various parts of human body. As the lessons proceed, they are made aware of their family relations beginning with their father and mother and revolving around their own identity. An interesting part of these family relations unfolds itself with the description of the comprehensive paternal and maternal blood relations of an individual of which the Western civilzation and culture do not emphasise much. The book concludes with three very interesting poems, with pictorial text; they deal with the subject matter of Holi-the well-known Indian ‘festival of colours’, Invocation of God through the Chating of ‘Aum’, the symbol of Hindu divinity, and the Prayer to God, respectively. Many of these rhymes and poems, all composed by me (the Author) personally, form a fit subject to be memorized and recited, sometimes with the accompaniment of music, by the children of UKG and the grown-ups alike.
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