Three guided lessons with explanations, visual steps, practice and a final check. An adult can read instructions aloud and help record the reflection.
Original companion for Mridang Unit 1, Fun with Friends (Reprint 2026–27). Official poems, story and pictures remain in their linked source. This companion uses original analogous texts and diagrams; it does not reproduce the source or claim every exercise answer. Use the unit map and adult checks for the full planned outcome sequence.
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LESSON 1
Find people and actions in a story
Identify characters and connect an action with the person who does it.
An adult may read prompts, model English or accept a home-language response before helping the learner express it in English. Open the linked NCERT reading together.
Read the original start
Original practice story: “Mina and Dev arrange picture cards for a display. There is a red circle and a blue square. The star card is missing.” This is a new story, not the official OUT! OUT! reading.
Find who is involved
Mina and Dev are the named people. Circle and square name pictures on cards, not people in this story.
Match an action to its doer
Continue: “Dev draws a star on a fresh paper card. Mina places it in the gap.” Dev draws; Mina places. Keep each action with its named person.
Check the ending
The ending is “The three-card display is complete.” Tell who helped and how. Read the official story separately and identify its own people and actions.
Worked example: Original example: The sentence “Dev draws a star” supports the answer Dev to “Who draws?” It does not support saying Mina drew it, even though Mina is also a character.
Watch for this: The person who does one action need not do every action in a story. Do not swap actions when retelling.
Discuss: Make a two-column record: person and action. Add one entry for each person in the original story, then make a separate record for the official reading.
LESSON 2
Retell events in order
Use first, next and finally to retell a sequence without changing it.
An adult may read prompts, model English or accept a home-language response before helping the learner express it in English. Open the linked NCERT reading together.
Find the beginning
In the original display story, Mina and Dev begin arranging picture cards. They then notice the missing star card.
Find the response
After noticing the gap, Dev draws a replacement star card. The drawing happens before Mina can place that new card.
Find the ending
Mina places the card and completes the display. A retelling should preserve this order, even when it uses different words.
Retell with links
Say “First they notice the missing card. Next Dev draws one. Finally Mina places it.” These three sentences summarise the problem and response; they need not repeat every word.
Worked example: Original example: “Mina places the new card before Dev draws it” reverses the story’s order. Correct it to “Dev draws the new card; then Mina places it.”
Watch for this: First, next and finally are useful only when the events themselves are in the correct order.
Discuss: Put four original event cards in order. Then return to the official p13 ordering task and justify the source sequence from pp10–11.
LESSON 3
Explain a problem and a response
Use a story clue to explain why an action helped.
An adult may read prompts, model English or accept a home-language response before helping the learner express it in English. Open the linked NCERT reading together.
Name the problem precisely
The display lacks its star card. That is different from saying every card is missing. Use the detail stated in the story.
Name the helpful response
Dev draws a replacement star. Mina puts it in the gap. Both actions help solve the particular problem.
Explain with because
Say “The display can be completed because the missing star card has a replacement.” The reason follows from the story; it is not a guess about a hidden event.
Transfer the idea carefully
For a different paper game, a spare clean card might replace a missing card. Ask an adult before using household items, and change the solution if the new problem is different. This new idea is not an extra event in the story.
Worked example: Original example: A class cannot label its plant drawing because its label card is missing. Writing a fresh label can help; changing the wall colour does not directly solve the missing-label problem.
Watch for this: An event happening later does not automatically explain the earlier problem. A useful reason must connect to the actual issue.
Discuss: Describe a simple make-believe play problem. Draw a useful response using paper or other adult-approved material and explain how it helps.
Each companion covers selected outcomes. Use the chapter scope and adult checks to judge what still needs practice.
Show what you can do
Complete these tasks on paper or through discussion. An adult or teacher checks the evidence. The browser completion badge covers its choice questions and reflection; it does not certify speaking, writing or practical mastery.
Find people and actions in a story
Adult observation
Read official pp10–12. Ask who appears, who does each important action and which words show it. Build a separate official-story person/action record. Explain new action words such as threw, brought, picked, gathered and skipped with brief original examples.
Keeps original and official story characters separate
Matches an action to its doer
Uses a source clue and explains new words
Adult observation: independent / supported / revisit; record a spoken, signed, written or other accessible response.
Adult review guide
Adult observation
Read official pp10–12. Ask who appears, who does each important action and which words show it. Build a separate official-story person/action record. Explain new action words such as threw, brought, picked, gathered and skipped with brief original examples.
Keeps original and official story characters separate
Matches an action to its doer
Uses a source clue and explains new words
Adult observation: independent / supported / revisit; record a spoken, signed, written or other accessible response.
Retell events in order
Adult observation
Use official p13 event ordering and a separate set of original cards. Ask the learner to retell each sequence with three linking words and give one before/after explanation.
Sequences events from the correct source
Uses first/next/finally meaningfully
Explains why one event precedes another
Adult observation: independent / supported / revisit; record a spoken, signed, written or other accessible response.
Adult review guide
Adult observation
Use official p13 event ordering and a separate set of original cards. Ask the learner to retell each sequence with three linking words and give one before/after explanation.
Sequences events from the correct source
Uses first/next/finally meaningfully
Explains why one event precedes another
Adult observation: independent / supported / revisit; record a spoken, signed, written or other accessible response.
Explain a problem and a response
Adult observation
Discuss the problem, attempted solution and ending in official pp10–12. Ask for a source clue. Then let the learner propose an original paper-based play item, or draw it, using clean adult-approved materials.
Distinguishes problem, action and result
Explains a reason supported by the source
Labels an invented improvement as a new idea
Adult observation: independent / supported / revisit; record a spoken, signed, written or other accessible response.
Adult review guide
Adult observation
Discuss the problem, attempted solution and ending in official pp10–12. Ask for a source clue. Then let the learner propose an original paper-based play item, or draw it, using clean adult-approved materials.
Distinguishes problem, action and result
Explains a reason supported by the source
Labels an invented improvement as a new idea
Adult observation: independent / supported / revisit; record a spoken, signed, written or other accessible response.
Choice questions sample understanding. Read-aloud, listening, handwriting, conversation and practical tasks require adult evidence; scores alone do not establish those skills.
Original companion for Mridang Unit 1, Fun with Friends (Reprint 2026–27). Official poems, story and pictures remain in their linked source. This companion uses original analogous texts and diagrams; it does not reproduce the source or claim every exercise answer. Use the unit map and adult checks for the full planned outcome sequence.
Original HelioLearn teaching and questions. Source-aligned companion; not an official NCERT/CBSE publication or full textbook solution bank. Independent teacher review and narrated video are pending.
