School · Class 1-3 · for parents
Early reading: a 2-minute check and daily practice
Listen, never record: you listen to your child and tap what you heard. Shishya never turns on the microphone, and nothing you tap is saved or sent; the result disappears when you close the page.
How well does my child read today?
Sit beside your child with this screen. You will see what to ask, your child reads aloud, and you tap what you heard. It takes about 2 minutes.
This is a quick home check of the highest level your child read comfortably today, not a test score or a diagnosis. Children read differently on different days. If you are worried, talk to your child's teacher.
How the check works: it follows the published method of ASER's reading tool (start with a short paragraph, go up to a story or down to words and letters; 4 of 5 letters or words, or a whole text read like sentences with 3 mistakes or fewer). ASER Centre, ASER 2024 assessment tasks (reading tool and how to test reading), read 27 Oct 2026. The letters, words, paragraphs and story are Shishya's own (written with AI help and checked for script and length), made in the style of ASER's published reading tool, not copied from it.
Practise letters, words and stories
हिंदी
Letters, words, 2 short paragraphs and a story, read aloud by your device.
తెలుగు
Letters, words, 2 short paragraphs and a story, read aloud by your device.
English
Letters, words, 2 short paragraphs and a story, read aloud by your device.
What the government expects by each class
| Balvatika | Recognises letters and their sounds; reads simple words of at least 2 to 3 letters. |
|---|---|
| Class 1 | Reads small sentences of at least 4-5 simple words in an age-appropriate unknown text. |
| Class 2 | Reads with meaning, 45-60 words per minute. |
| Class 3 | Reads with meaning, at least 60 words per minute. |
NIPUN Bharat Lakshya (reading), Ministry of Education, NIPUN Bharat (on pib.gov.in, July 2021), Lakshyas: learning goals, read 27 Oct 2026. Words per minute is measured by a teacher on a text the child has not seen; this page does not time or score reading.
More free help
- NCERT Barkhaa readers — 40 stories, 4 levels, Class 1-2, English and Hindi, with audio.
- Read Along by Google — a free Android app from Google that listens to the child read aloud through the phone's microphone and helps. That is Google's app with its own privacy terms; Shishya's pages never use the microphone.
- NIPUN Bharat guidelines (PDF) — the national mission for reading and numbers by Class 3. We did not find a separate parents' guide on the official sites on 27 Oct 2026.