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Contexts

Backgrounds, In literary texts, context is essential to both meaning and
Themes and interpretation. The lead-in section in the lessons places the reading
Beyond-the-text
Enquiry passage in context by outlining its historical, social, cultural and
literary background. By encouraging beyond-the-text enquiry and
analysis, this part fulfils a crucial learning skill objective.

Reflect

Literary texts stimulate thinking by leaving scope for multiple Interpretation and
interpretations. The section ‘Reflect’ encourages non-linear and critical Critical Exploration
thinking by pointing to the extrapolative possibilities of the text and
prompting students to engage with them. The open-ended questions in
this section call for out-of-the-box thinking and creative responses.

Understand

Multi-dimensional The questions in ‘Understand’ test comprehension based on key
Assessment of reading parameters. They include objective, descriptive and free-
Comprehension
response type questions designed to test abilities such as recall,
comparison and analysis.

Think

Designed to develop higher order thinking skills, this section contains Higher Order
inference- and analysis-based questions that sharpen students’ critical Thinking Skills
faculties. These questions, which are to be answered with descriptive
responses, also serve as handy formative assessment material. While
they call for free responses like the prompts in ‘Reflect’, the expected
learner input is judgement based rather than purely subjective.

Language in Use

Learning through The activities in this section present a hands-on Agile approach
Practical Contexts to learning vocabulary and grammar, besides conventional
and Applications
practice formats. They include contextual and application-based
exercises and games for experiential learning. In poetry lessons,
this section includes accessible explanations and exercises relating
to literary devices, figures of speech, imagery and appreciation.
Practice in pronunciation and phonetics is given under the
section ‘Sounds and Pronunciation’.