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Also, attached Varna Maala contains Gujarati Alphabets with some practice sheets:
Page 1:
37 Moolakshar / Vyanjan
12 Svar (actuall there are 4 more)
Page 2:
Gujarati and Sanskrit Keyboard
Page 3 & 4:
Baaraakshari
Page 5 & 6:
Practice Sheets
How it could be used by parents/teachers/kids:
Parents/Teacher should convey the importance of the alphabet, and appreciate the importance of classification of alphabet. For details see the last column on page 1, which shows amazingly well-classified alphabets, that too by someone (no one knows, some say that the sound of alphabets were heard by some Rishis when they heard Damaroo played by the lord Shiv) thousands and thousands of years before our present civilisation.
There can be many ways parents/teachers can teach (or student can learn) alphabets, however, personally I recommend following ways for the beginners (throughout following ways parents/teachers should not pay more attention on whether students can exactly writes alphabets or not, however each student should be encourage to identify each alphabet and speak exactly as it is classified in 5th column on page 1). Students are smart, if they can identify, they will quickly learn how to write, and this also gives room for kids to use their imagination to write alphabets in different ways; consider different fonts or nice handwriting, how good it looks when it is used properly).
Step 1: Learn Alphabets (Vyanjan and Svar)
Parents/Teacher should learn how to pronounce each letter ideally in a same order as written on page (from top, left to right)
For those who do not read: Parents/Teachers should speak and write while reading alphabets from page 1
Those who do not read should learn to identify the alphabet being spoke and written by teachers or parents at the same time learn how each alphabet being spoken. Parent/Teacher/Student’s objective here should be to identify and speak (not reading and writing) each alphabet. Teacher should convey the importance of alphabet arrangement and ask student to pay attention on how each alphabet especially alphabet in 1st 5 rows are being spoken. There is similar importance of alphabets in last 3 rows. In step 1 teacher will tell the importance of classification, it is not important whether student learns the importance or not.
Once student can identify and speak each alphabet with proper sound, then apply that skill in group
parent/teacher and students all together should read (ask student to follow their finger on each alphabet) and speak each alphabet in sequnce from page 1 (here teacher should remind student to pay particular attention on how each alphabet is arranged and similarity the way each letter is being spoken in each row)
Step 2.2. Write-Along
parent/teacher and students all together should write and speak while reading each alphabet in sequence from page 1
Step 2.3: Identify alphabets from paragraph or from a page in a given book:
parent/teacher should randomly ask alphabet from page 1 and student should identify where that alphabet is on the sheet
c. parent/teacher should randomly ask alphabet from page 1 and student should identify as many alphabets from within the given page of a book or a printed paragraph
Teachers should also teach 12 + 4 “Svar”, and introduce symbols for each Svar (symbols are not shown on page 1, however could be used from page 3 and 4).
Page 3 and 4 could be used in similar ways as mentioned above.
Before using page 3 and 4 teachers should introduce all Svar (12 + 4) and symbols for each Svar.