Seeds contain a living part that can grow into a new plant. Only seeds that have life will germinate. A seed needs water, air, and suitable temperature to germinate, but soil and sunlight are not essential for germination. During germination, the seed absorbs water, swells, and the radicle (future root) grows downward, and the plumule…
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SCERT Class 4 A Book for Puchku – Deepanjana Pal
Puchku loves reading more than anything. She reads everywhere — at home, in school, even in the park. One day in the library, she finishes all the books she can reach on the lower shelves. The books on the upper shelves are too high for her. Puchku tries climbing on her friends and even on…
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SCERT Class 4 Good Books – Edgar Guest
Good books are friendly things to own. If you are busy they will wait. They will not call you on the phone Or wake you if the hour is late. Why are good books called friendly? Because they make us feel happy and comfortable. What do books do when you are busy? They wait quietly…
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SCERT Class 4 The Colorful Treasure – Class 4, SCERT
The story is about some poor children who live near a garbage dump. They cannot go to school, but they really want to learn. One day, a kind woman called Didi comes to them with colourful books. She reads stories and teaches them letters. The children slowly learn to read and become very happy. One…
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Class 7 SCERT Ranji’s Magic Bat – Ruskin Bond
Ranji was the last batsman of his team, and everyone trusted him to score runs. But he got out for zero and felt very sad. On his way home, he met Mr. Kumar, a kind shopkeeper who once played cricket for the state. Mr. Kumar gave Ranji his old “magic bat” to help him. With…
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Class 7 SCERT The World of Humor – Class 7 SCERT
Textbook Questions Do you think the cabman is a good detective? Why? The cabman looks like a good detective at first because he notices Conan Doyle’s English tweed suit and remembers the newspaper report about his visit. But he later admits that the real clue was the writer’s name written clearly on the luggage. This…
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Class 7 SCERT Laughing Song – William Blake
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene, When Mary and Susan…
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Class 7 SCERT A Trip to a Hot Summer – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Totto‑Chan and her schoolmates went on a three‑day trip to a hot spring resort in Toi. Her mother allowed her to go after receiving the Headmaster’s letter. The children behaved well during the journey because Tomoe School had taught them good manners through daily life. They enjoyed travelling by train and ship, swimming in the…
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Class 6 The Heart of a Woman – Georgia Douglas Johnson
The poem shows how a woman’s heart longs for freedom and dreams. At dawn, it rises like a lonely bird, hoping to explore the world and find happiness. But when night comes, the heart returns to its restricted life, like a bird trapped in a cage. It tries to forget its dreams, even though the…
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Class 6 The Why Why Girl – Mahasweta Devi
Moyna is a curious little girl who always asks many questions about everything around her. She works hard every day, looking after goats and helping her mother, but she still wants to know why life is the way it is. One day she meets the narrator, who tells her that books can answer many of…
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