Class 2

Echoes adopts an interactive approach to develop the communication skills of learners in a graded manner based on an international framework of learning and assessment. It includes tasks for preparing students for the Assessment of Listening and Speaking (ALS). This edition additionally incorporates the twin aims of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023 communicative competence and language proficiency. Further, Echoes helps accomplish Curricular Goal 1 (CG-1) of Preparatory Stage set out in the NCF which aims for learners to develop oral language skills using complex sentence structures to understand and communicate ideas coherently.

My Learning Train has been revised and extended to Classes 1 and 2 to completely align it to the five years of foundational stage (3 to 8 years of age) as suggested by the National Education Policy, 2020. It is an interactive, activity-based series with methodologies based on Kino Learn and Kino Phonics, developed by the author. The activities have been carefully designed in view of the age, level of interest, and the learning ability of the children based on the developmental milestones, curricular goals and learning outcomes suggested in the National Curriculum Framework, 2022.

New Mulberry English Course is an integrated language and literature course. This new edition, fully aligned to the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2023, unites its time-tested approach of employing Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences with a strong focus on the core learning outcomes of an English class—literary analysis and language learning