Varnamala ( Swar, Vyanjan) 1 - Swar

The difficult task in teaching is to teach the basics of a language - alphabets. Children love colourful pictures, rhymes, music. They pick up very fast when they are taught with the help of colourful pictures and rhymes and retain them.

While introducing alphabets it is important to point out the articles around matching with alphabet sound. Since they are comfortable with their mother tongue so they should be encouraged to probe with the sounds and play with the alphabetical sounds. They should be encouraged to identify objects related to each alphabet.

Once they are successful with identification of alphabets then written form of alphabets is introduced. It is a herculean task for the kids, teachers and parents. It requires a lot of patience n perseverance to teach little monkeys to hold a pencil and write.

In Hindi Swar (Vowels) are 13.

अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अ: ।

In pictorial Varnamala each alphabet has more than one picture identifying with one particular varna (alphabet) and kids should be encouraged to probe and find more objects as it improves their vocabulary and improves their observation power.