Marigold

Book Five

Textbook in English
for Class V

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ISBN 978-81-7450-813-3
Textbook for Class V

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 FOREWORD

The National Curriculum Framework, 2005, recommends that

children’s life at school must be linked to their life outside the school.
This principle marks a departure from the legacy of bookish learning
which continues to shape our system and causes a gap between the
school, home and community. The syllabi and textbooks developed
on the basis of NCF signify an attempt to implement this basic idea.
They also attempt to discourage rote learning and the maintenance of
sharp boundaries between different subject areas. We hope these
measures will take us significantly further in the direction of a child-
centred system of education outlined in the National Policy on
Education (1986).
The success of this effort depends on the steps that school
principals and teachers will take to encourage children to reflect on
their own learning and to pursue imaginative activities and questions.
We must recognise that given space, time and freedom, children
generate new knowledge by engaging with the information passed on
to them by adults. Treating the prescribed textbook as the sole basis
of examination is one of the key reasons why other resources and sites
of learning are ignored. Inculcating creativity and initiative is possible
if we perceive and treat children as participants in learning, not as
receivers of a fixed body of knowledge.
These aims imply considerable change in school routines and
mode of functioning. Flexibility in the daily time-table is as necessary
as rigour in implementing the annual calendar so that the required
number of teaching days are actually devoted to teaching. The
methods used for teaching and evaluation will also determine how
effective this textbook proves for making children’s life at school a
happy experience, rather than a source of stress or boredom. Syllabus
designers have tried to address the problem of curricular burden by
restructuring and reorienting knowledge at different stages with
greater consideration for child psychology and the time available for
teaching. The textbook attempts to enhance this endeavour by giving
higher priority and space to opportunities for contemplation and
wondering, discussion in small groups, and activities requiring
hands-on experience.
NCERT appreciates the hard work done by the textbook
development committee responsible for this book. We wish to thank
the Chairperson of the advisory group at the primary level, Professor
Anita Rampal and the Chief Advisor for this book, Professor R. Lalitha

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Eapen (CIEFL, Hyderabad) for guiding the work of this committee.
Several teachers contributed to the development of this textbook;
we are grateful to their principals for making this possible. We
are indebted to the institutions and organisations which have
generously permitted us to draw upon their resources, material and
personnel. We are especially grateful to the members of the National
Monitoring Committee, appointed by the Department of Secondary
and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development
under the Chairpersonship of Professor Mrinal Miri and
Professor G.P. Deshpande, for their valuable time and contribution.
As an organisation committed to the systemic reform and continuous
improvement in the quality of its products, NCERT welcomes
comments and suggestions which will enable us to undertake further
revision and refinement.

New Delhi Director

30 November 2007 National Council of Educational
Research and Training

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 Textbook Development Committee

CHAIRPERSON, ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR TEXTBOOKS AT THE

PRIMARY LEVEL
Anita Rampal, Professor, Central Institute of Education, Delhi
University, Delhi

CHIEF ADVISOR
R. Lalitha Eapen, Professor, English and Foreign Languages
University (EFLU), Hyderabad

CHIEF COORDINATOR
Ram Janma Sharma, Former Professor and Head, Department of
Education in Languages, NCERT, New Delhi

MEMBERS
Anupama Chatterjee, Primary Teacher, Army Public School,
Kolkata
Arti Rawat, Primary Teacher, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Raiwala, Dehradun
Jaishree Acharya, Senior Consultant, Education Development
Centre, New Delhi
Maitrayee Gopalakrishnan, Primary Coordinator, J.H. Ambani
Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Surat, Gujarat
Pinkoo Chawla, Primary Teacher, Kendriya Vidyalaya, AA1,
Rangpuri, New Delhi
Renu Viswanath, Primary Teacher, Mother's International School,
New Delhi
Sangeeta Dhall, Primary Teacher, La Martiniere Jr. College,
Lucknow
MEMBER-COORDINATOR
Usha Dutta, Former Professor, Department of Education in
Languages, NCERT, New Delhi

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 Acknowledgements

The National Council of Educational Research and Training thanks the

following authors and copyright holders for granting permission to use
poems and stories included in this book. Ice-cream Man by Rachel Field;
Teamwork by Jan Nigro. A wise old bird by Shivkumar changed to Flying
Together, from Stories from Panchatantra; Children's Book Trust, New
Delhi; The Ant and the Dove, Aesop's Fables; Robinson Crusoe adapted
from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe; Crying by Galway Kinnell; My Elder
Brother translated and adapted from Bade Bhai Saheb by Premchand;
Rip Van Winkle adapted from the Legend of Rip Van Winkle by Washington
Irving; Class Discussion by Gervase Phinn; The Talkative Barber adapted
from the Arabian Nights; A Lion by Joseph G. Francis; Topsy-turvy Land
by H.E.Wilkinson; Gulliver’s Travels adapted from Jonathan Swift's
Gulliver's Travels; Nobody’s Friend by Enid Blyton; The Little Bully
adapted from Enid Blyton’s The Little Bully. Sing a Song of People by Lois
Lbnski; Around the World adapted from Around the World in Eighty-days
by Jules Verne; Day by Day I Float My Paper Boats by Rabindranath
Tagore; Malu Bhalu excerpts from Malu Bhalu by Kamla Bhasin
translated by Sandhya Rao, from the original Hindi — first published by
Tulika Publishers, Chennai in 1999; Who Will be Ningthou? a story from
Manipur by Indira Mukherjee, published by Tulika Publishers, Chennai
in 1999.
The Council also gratefully acknowledges the contributions of
Vandana R. Singh, Consultant Editor; Neena Chandra, Copy Editor;
Arvind Sharma and Haroon, DTP Operators.
It has not been possible to trace the copyright in all the cases. The
publishers apologise for any omissions and would be glad to hear from
any such unacknowledged copyright holders.

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