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Joy Finders
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TAL 1 · Ages 6–7 · Island of Discovery

Joy Finders

"Where is the joy in reading?"

The very first adventure. Ten short journeys — like raindrops that become rivers — that grow a lifelong love of reading and a child's first sense of themselves as a changemaker.

Ages 6–7 10 stories & poems NCF Foundational Kindness Explorers
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What's inside

The stories

1
Rain
R.L. Stevenson · photo John Morgan
2
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Lilian Schultz · art Kalyani Ganapathy
3
If You Catch a Firefly
Lilian Moore · art Boski Jain
4
Little Things
art Vandana Bist
5
Rainbow
art Sreeja Basu
6
The First Tooth
art Samidha Gunjal
7
My India
Katha
8
We Are Family
Katha
9
Balloon Guppalloon
Geeta Dharmarajan · art Saksham Arora
10
Mai and Her Friends
story & art Durga Bai
Using this book

How different readers use it

In a classroom

Mentor's Guide Set 1 gives explorer boxes, discussion prompts and TADAA activities for every story.

Training · learn@katha.org

At home or NIOS

The book is written for an adult reading with a child, so you don't need teaching experience to use it. Read a story together and talk it over.

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For a school or board

Use TAL 1 across a year group, on its own or with your existing syllabus. It sits at the NCF Foundational stage.

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