📚✨ Class 10th English Syllabus – CBSE Board Session 2025–2026
(For Online Classes)
This syllabus follows the latest CBSE guidelines and covers Reading, Writing, Grammar, Literature, and Supplementary Reader components, ensuring complete preparation for the board exam.
🗂️ Section-wise Syllabus
📖 1️⃣ Reading Skills (20 Marks)
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Unseen Passage (Factual, Discursive, or Literary)
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Case-based Factual Passage
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Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Short Answer Type Questions to assess inference, analysis, vocabulary, and comprehension.
✍️ 2️⃣ Writing Skills and Grammar (20 Marks)
✏️ Writing
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Formal Letter (Complaint, Enquiry, Placement, or Order) — 100–120 words
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Analytical Paragraph Writing based on given data, chart, graph, cues, etc. — 100–120 words
⚙️ Grammar
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Tenses
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Modals
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Subject-Verb Concord
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Reported Speech (Commands and Requests, Statements, Questions)
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Determiners
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Clauses
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Editing/Omission
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Gap Filling
Practice will include application-based exercises, editing tasks, and question banks for board exam-style questions.
📚 3️⃣ Literature Textbooks and Supplementary Reading (40 Marks)
📗 First Flight (Main Reader)
Prose:
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A Letter to God
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Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
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Two Stories about Flying
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From the Diary of Anne Frank
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The Hundred Dresses – I
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The Hundred Dresses – II
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Glimpses of India
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Mijbil the Otter
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Madam Rides the Bus
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The Sermon at Benares
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The Proposal (Play)
Poetry:
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Dust of Snow
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Fire and Ice
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A Tiger in the Zoo
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How to Tell Wild Animals
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The Ball Poem
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Amanda!
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Animals
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The Trees
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Fog
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The Tale of Custard the Dragon
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For Anne Gregory
For each prose and poem:
✔️ Detailed summary
✔️ Central theme & message
✔️ Important extracts and lines
✔️ Character sketches
✔️ Value-based questions
✔️ Assertion-Reason and MCQs
📘 Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader)
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A Triumph of Surgery
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The Thief’s Story
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The Midnight Visitor
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A Question of Trust
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Footprints Without Feet
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The Making of a Scientist
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The Necklace
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The Hack Driver
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Bholi
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The Book That Saved the Earth
For each story:
✔️ Plot summary
✔️ Character sketches
✔️ Important question bank
✔️ Moral lessons and value-based learning
📍 Key Focus Areas in Online Classes
✅ Chapter-wise summaries, mind maps, and word banks
✅ Vocabulary building with meanings and usage
✅ Reading comprehension practice sets
✅ Grammar worksheets with answers
✅ Formal and creative writing practice
✅ Answer writing techniques and presentation tips
✅ Practice of assertion-reason and case-based questions
✅ Sample papers, unit tests, and full-length board-style tests
🎯 Learning Outcomes
✨ Strong grasp of reading comprehension skills
✨ Mastery of grammar accuracy and usage
✨ Creative and structured writing ability
✨ Confidence in literary analysis and extract-based questions
✨ Effective answer presentation and time management for full marks
✅ Your Roadmap to Scoring High in Class 10th English!
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