HomeThe Journey → TAL 4
COVER · TAL 4
Idea Spotters
~720×960px
TAL 4 · Ages 9–10 · Navigator's Deck

Idea Spotters

"How is a story built?"

On the navigator's deck: mystery, adventure, and humour. Children look at how stories are put together — how they open, how they build, and how they end.

Ages 9–10 12 stories NCF Preparatory Navigators
Look inside

Selected spreads

FLIPBOOK EMBED
8–12 selected spreads from TAL 4, watermarked "Preview".
Lazy-loaded viewer (e.g. issuu / dflip / custom). ~1280×720px
What's inside

The stories

★ The Questioning Me
Two's Company
Raymond Wilson
Ice Golawalla
Beheroze Shroff
Things You Don't Need to Know
Kenn Nesbitt
★ Kindness = Strength
The Peacock and the Sun
Meghalaya folktale, retold Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Plantagenet and the Primordial Pondweed
Katha
Where is God?
Katha
★ Our Only Home
The Enoki Tree
Katha
A Jungle Safari
Katha
★ Speaking Up!
After the Curfew
Katha
The Triantiwontigongolope
C.J. Dennis
★ The Hows and the Whys
How the Leopard Got His Spots
Rudyard Kipling
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear
Using this book

How different readers use it

In a classroom

Mentor's Guide Set 2 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.

Get the book ↗

For a school or board

Use TAL 4 across a year group, on its own or with your existing syllabus. It sits at the NCF Preparatory stage.

Bulk · sales@katha.org