Kathai Aruvi - A STORY CARDS PROGRAM

 Kathai Aruvi - A STORY CARDS PROGRAM

 

 

Kathai Aruvi - The Story Cards Program

A large number of children in rural schools are first generation learners without books at home or access to good libraries. Text books are the only reading material available to them.

There is a growing body of research which says that when children have access to a wide variety of stories their reading skills improve and they learn language with ease. Yet there is a dearth of easily accessible story books and supplementary reading materials in most primary schools.

The aim of the story cards project is to promote reading among underprivileged children in schools. One Story Card set is a collection of 100 illustrated four page A-3 sized laminated reading cards with stories from India and many other countries. It includes traditional folktales as well as modern stories, nature stories and stories about everyday experience. Interspersed among the stories are groups of riddles requiring ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution.

The story cards were originally published in Tamil, in 2003, as “Kathai Aruvi.” The collection was born out of the desire of four educationists, Ms. P. Saraswati, Ms. V. Vijayakanthi, Dr. L.S. Saraswathi and Prof. S. Rajalakshmi, to provide rural children with access to good reading material. Subsequently they were brought out in other Indian languages (Hindi, Marathi, Kannada Oriya) called “Katha Jharna”, and in English called “A Cascade of Stories”.

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HINDI : https://rajifoundation.in/storycards/hindi/index.html

 

SOURCE :  https://rajifoundation.in/