Phase 1

Understanding their prior knowledge of the topic "Stories"

What are stories?

Panthi: “Character in the story.”

Shivansh: “Story has title, moral, character and also imagination.”

Dhrit: "Raja rani ki story, pirate story,

Shivansh: "Heroes story, animals story, Ramayana, Krishna ji, Hanuman story.”,

Meera: "Crow, krishan- Radha and kans story I like.”, “Gods’ story.”, T.v we have house.”

Panthi :“Chetak ki muscium mai story sambhal ne gaye the.

Shanaya: “Fairy tales.”, “Fairy and prince.”

Dhruhi: "Rabbit, hayna, elephant, story in the cave.”, Frozen story mai magic hota hai, Elsa mai magic hota hai.”, “Elsa magic se usko ice bana deti hai.”

Navyash: "Jungle story, cave,”

Panthi: "Barbie's ke videos dekhti hu.

Anant: “Superman can fly with cape on his back.”,

Shanaya: "Sun mountain, tree grass, my family. zebra, elephant, tiger ,lion , monkey , gorilla."

Children sharing about the books they have at home

Kyra: "I have 8 books."

Sharanya: "18 animal story books I have!!!"

Places where they listen/read stories

Navyansh:“Story.” ghar mai suni hai, Our house has small library"

Dhrit: "Sunder van mai story hoti hai , waha pe garden story hoti hai.”

Riyansh: “In library, books .

Riyansh:“I visited the theater for watch a story.”

Shivansh:"School mai stories hoti hai."

Kayra: "Mujhe raat ko story acchi lagte hai, morning mai park acche agte hai.”,

Kayra:"Ghar pe story sunti hu.”

Navyash: "Jungle story, cave,

Dhrit:"Story Jungle ami hoti hai.”

Devasya: This is garden aur garden mein bhi story sunte hai.

Dhruhi :"I made stick puppet with clay and Ice-cream sticks."

Various ways of telling stories

Jiyansh:"Yes, Ice-cream stick se story kehte hai.”

Dhrit:"Hai na bhot sare puppet mukate hai."

Dhurhi:“Puppet se story kehte hai."

Shivansh:“Mamma, papa, dadu, dadi, bade papa story sunate hai.”,

Devasya:“Books mai story hoti hai.”, “Drama and play Village mai ramayan ksuni thi dusshere pe.”

Nivaan: "Juo ma'am mari paase caterpillar wali book che."

Kayra: "Dekho mere pass bhi Ant aur dove kis story book hai."

Dhrit:“Mere madam stories sunate hai.”

People associated with stories

Navyansh:"Mamma tells me story.”

Sharanya :"Mamma paddhati ahi kabhi kabhi.

Dhruhi:"Mamma and papa tell story.”

Kayra:“Papa,mamma, baa, bade papa, brother sab story kehte hai.”

Meera:“My grandmother tell stories, in the bedroom, when we sleep, bedtime story.”

Devsaya:"story suante hai jab papa office se aate hai.”,

Nivvan:“Family members thi tory sambhalu chu.”

Tammana:"Mammy story suanti hai, phone mai se story suanti hai.”

Meera:“She is narrate story from book my grandma."

Kayra: “Hum puppets se bhi se story keh sakte hai, hum T.V. se bhi story keh sakte hai, hu paper se bhi story kar sakte hai Mere bhaiya ke saath chota bhim dekhti hu.”

Meera:"My grandmother tell story, her grandmother, great grandmother“They use only words.”, “Accha lagta hai.”

Devsaya: “Author aur writer story likhte hai.”

Evolution of stories

Shivansh: "The people use paper to say story.”, “Ganapti ki story leaf pe stick se story likh sakte hai.”, “Ramayan bade bade, maharajo ne likhe te the.”, "RamayanHanuman ji ne likhi hai.”, “Wings aur power ke vajah se objects fly kar sakte hai.”

Panthi: “The plain books mai story likhte hai, phir woh story sunate hai.”

Anant: “In the golden days there were no books people used to tell draw on the wall and tell story.”, “They used nail paints.”, “People use rocks.”, "Superman can fly with cape on his back.”, “People write story in rock, stone , paper.”

Importance of stories

Meera: “Because all the important stories are costly, I bought 100 rs.”

Sharnaya: “We learn new new words."

Dhruhi: “We learn good habits from story.”

Shivansh: “Story has tittle, moral, character and also imagination.”

Abhay: “These story books teach us never give up.”

Anant: “Teacher share about worries,” , “The worries about very small solutions are there.”

Shivansh:“Story give us good knowledge.”, “I am learning the English form of story.”,

Children expressing their feelings about stories

Shanay: “Bahut accha lagta hai.”

Kayra:“Story mai acche acche moral hote hai.

Shivansh: " I like jungle book story, because usmai animals horte hai.”

Tammana: "Maine dekho doll banai."

Talking about favorite stories

Riyansh:"I like the curious George story, monkey going to the school.”, “I like lion story and tiger story and giraffes, cow,goat, pig and coin story, they are animals.”

Jiyansh:“Lion and tiger hulk, spider man story like.”

Tammana:"Super heroes."

Meera:" Lion and the mouse, I like this story."

Sharanya:“I like pig book, three little books, they are very hardworking., because unhone brick ka ghar banaya tha.” ,

Tammana: "Jungle, jungle book story achi lagti hai, usmai Bagheera, mogli, sherkhan, kala, sher khan acche lagte hai.”

Dhruhi:“I like cartoon books, cartoon acche lagte hai.”

Navyash:"Ravan sita aur ek jhupdi banai."

Nivaan:"Nivaan: “Power petrol”, “My favourite story ."

Kayra:"Meri favourite story is goldilocks and three bears.”

Devasya:“ Muje robot ki story achi lagti hai, kyunki woh sab ki help karte hai.

Shanay:“Bal Ganesha story.”

Comparing my stories with my dad's stories

Sharanya:“This book is papa’s book, and this is my book, meri book cartoon hai, aur papa ki book mai cartoon nahi hai.”, "My book has short story and papa's book has long story. In papa's book more pages and my has less pages."

Different languages of stories

Sharanya: "Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi."

Meera: "English, Tamil, Telugu."

Children's understanding depicted through their artwork

Children making stick puppets

Children making clay models using indigenous materials

Meera: Created pond with 2 fishes and said "It is finding Nemo and his dad"

Anant’s version of Captain America with his shield

Princess

Fiona

Stories by Children

Dhrit's Stories in the form of drawing

Abhay narrating the story of "Little Red Hen" with stick puppets

He shares how no farm animals wanted to help the hen sow the wheat, harvest it, and ultimately make it into bread. All the farm animals kept saying “not I” when little red hen asked for help. When the time came to finally eat and enjoy the bread everybody said “yes” to wanting to eat the bread but the red hen said NO!